Amare
Amare was given to 59 boys in 2025, #2,333 among boys’ names; 6,536 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,470 Americans named Amare and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 11 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amare by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amare mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amare is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amare?
#2,333 among boys’ names, 2025
Amare fell from #831 in 2015 to #2,333 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.14 to 0.03 per 1,000.
665 babies in 2011, the peak
Amare peaked in 2011, when 665 babies were given it (639 boys, #427 among boys’ names). The 64 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,333 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,079 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 93 | #1,754 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 112 | #1,575 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 168 | #1,171 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 164 | #1,173 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 164 | #1,177 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 196 | #1,036 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 199 | #1,016 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 207 | #985 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 270 | #831 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 264 | #847 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 423 | #598 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 534 | #498 | 0.28 |
| 2011 | 639 | #427 | 0.34 |
| 2010 | 505 | #509 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 377 | #657 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 357 | #678 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 376 | #646 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 262 | #789 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 347 | #631 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 135 | #1,159 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 154 | #1,023 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,096 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,459 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,047 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,745 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,863 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,164 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Amare a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,536 Americans recorded as Amare, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 59 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amare: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amare, and how old are they?
6,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,536 Americans ever recorded as Amare. The median Amare alive today is 15 years old; half are between 11 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 4,887 people named Amare (324 women and girls, 4,563 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,807 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,940 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,530 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Amare born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #1,586 | 1.4× |
Where Amare is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amare is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1997 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Amare with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 74,178 babies since 1880, Amare is the second most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 64 of their 3,895 babies (1.6%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amare
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Amare and names like it
- Compare Amare and AmariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmare peaked in 2011.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amare since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Amare.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Amare alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.