Amariah
Amariah was given to 201 girls in 2025, #1,152 among girls’ names; 3,791 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,760 Americans named Amariah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amariah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amariah?
#1,152 among girls’ names, 2025
Amariah rose from #1,667 in 2015 to #1,152 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.13 per 1,000.
206 babies in 2025, the peak
Amariah peaked in 2025, when 206 babies were given it (201 girls, #1,152 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 180 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 201 | #1,152 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 180 | #1,284 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 161 | #1,393 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 127 | #1,659 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,680 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 136 | #1,552 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 134 | #1,585 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 142 | #1,532 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 169 | #1,364 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 139 | #1,591 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 128 | #1,667 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 135 | #1,591 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 139 | #1,557 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 169 | #1,379 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 167 | #1,372 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 177 | #1,328 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 181 | #1,328 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 157 | #1,486 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 157 | #1,480 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 128 | #1,653 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 114 | #1,730 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,895 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 95 | #1,915 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,142 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,538 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,938 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,783 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,425 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,229 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,944 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,448 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,119 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,044 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,487 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,618 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,036 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,421 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,148 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,443 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amariah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amariah has been given almost only to girls: 28 boys in 39 years of records.
Girls and boys named Amariah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amariah, and how old are they?
3,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,791 Americans ever recorded as Amariah. The median Amariah alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,314 people named Amariah (2,253 women and girls, 61 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,850 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 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 109 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,930 |
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 Amariah born?
The states with the most babies named Amariah are Texas, California and Florida, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 25 | #1,090 | 1.3× |
| California | 20 | #1,235 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 16 | #961 | 1.3× |
| Colorado | 10 | #539 | 0.4× |
| New York | 9 | #1,422 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 9 | #962 | 0.5× |
| New Mexico | 9 | #161 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,084 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,122 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,119 | 0.1× |
Where Amariah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amariah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1980 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 girls’ 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 Amariah 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 54,282 babies since 1880, Amariah is the third most given (7.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 206 of their 3,972 babies (5.2%), again the third 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 Amariah
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 Amariah and names like it
- Compare Amariah and AmaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmariah peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amariah since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Amariah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amariah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.