Amari
Amari is a unisex name: 804 girls and 2,000 boys were given it in 2025 (#380 among girls’ names and #185 among boys’, #227 among all names counting both); 53,282 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Amari every year since 2005.
An estimated 52,800 Americans named Amari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amari mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amari is “a male or female given name of modern usage.”
The surname is of multiple origins, including:
A variant of Amaro, from Italian Amaro.
A variant of Amar, from Arabic عَمَّار (ʕammār).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amari?
#185 among boys’ names, 2025
Amari rose from #267 in 2015 to #185 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.71 to 1.2 per 1,000.
3,427 babies in 2023, the peak
Amari peaked in 2023, when 3,427 babies were given it (2,422 boys, #151 among boys’ names). The 2,804 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 82% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 804 | #380 | 2,000 | #185 |
| 2024 | 1,070 | #296 | 2,164 | #172 |
| 2023 | 1,005 | #306 | 2,422 | #151 |
| 2022 | 1,009 | #320 | 2,179 | #174 |
| 2021 | 985 | #333 | 1,920 | #200 |
| 2020 | 940 | #329 | 1,742 | #217 |
| 2019 | 1,042 | #310 | 1,596 | #239 |
| 2018 | 818 | #380 | 1,323 | #269 |
| 2017 | 749 | #425 | 1,323 | #275 |
| 2016 | 700 | #459 | 1,363 | #269 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 680 | #470 | 1,366 | #267 |
| 2014 | 589 | #524 | 985 | #338 |
| 2013 | 581 | #512 | 955 | #337 |
| 2012 | 633 | #486 | 1,075 | #308 |
| 2011 | 572 | #513 | 1,056 | #306 |
| 2010 | 662 | #462 | 1,005 | #318 |
| 2009 | 632 | #487 | 1,088 | #299 |
| 2008 | 830 | #388 | 951 | #343 |
| 2007 | 673 | #480 | 879 | #360 |
| 2006 | 585 | #518 | 684 | #419 |
| 2005 | 633 | #484 | 666 | #410 |
| 2004 | 696 | #441 | 638 | #407 |
| 2003 | 784 | #390 | 613 | #419 |
| 2002 | 677 | #431 | 505 | #472 |
| 2001 | 599 | #464 | 300 | #631 |
| 2000 | 519 | #512 | 260 | #681 |
| 1999 | 405 | #601 | 230 | #713 |
| 1998 | 495 | #513 | 251 | #679 |
| 1997 | 322 | #675 | 149 | #912 |
| 1996 | 222 | #890 | 85 | #1,290 |
| 1995 | 84 | #1,727 | 44 | #1,912 |
| 1994 | 72 | #1,948 | 43 | #1,922 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,486 | 22 | #3,044 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,607 | 21 | #3,101 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,654 | 18 | #3,327 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,060 | 14 | #3,973 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,291 | 7 | #6,244 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,128 | 12 | #3,914 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,801 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,148 | 7 | #5,351 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,723 | 10 | #4,052 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,174 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #5,499 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,442 | 6 | #5,549 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,487 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #4,652 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Amari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 53,282 Americans recorded as Amari, 40% are girls and 60% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amari, and how old are they?
52,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 53,282 Americans ever recorded as Amari. The median Amari alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 28,688 people named Amari (12,867 women and girls, 15,821 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 35,417 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 860 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 19,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 32,100 |
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 Amari born?
The states with the most babies named Amari are Texas, California and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 325 | #226 | 0.8× |
| California | 274 | #209 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 189 | #144 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 133 | #117 | 1.8× |
| New York | 132 | #188 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 105 | #167 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 104 | #154 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 91 | #158 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 89 | #117 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 82 | #174 | 1.1× |
Where Amari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amari is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1974 it was given 2.4 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 Amari 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, Amari is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,804 of their 3,895 babies (72%), again the most given.
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 Amari
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 Amari and names like it
- Compare Amari and AmareBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmari peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amari since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Amari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.