Amaris
Amaris is given to both girls and boys: 360 girls and 65 boys were given it in 2025 (#754 among girls’ names and #2,183 among boys’, #1,313 among all names counting both); 10,168 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,000 Americans named Amaris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amaris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amaris mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amaris is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amaris?
#754 among girls’ names, 2025
Amaris rose from #791 in 2015 to #754 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.20 to 0.22 per 1,000.
425 babies in 2025, the peak
Amaris peaked in 2025, when 425 babies were given it (360 girls, #754 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 316 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 360 | #754 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 316 | #857 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 291 | #912 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 301 | #910 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 285 | #931 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 296 | #895 | 0.18 |
| 2019 | 336 | #813 | 0.20 |
| 2018 | 315 | #860 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 318 | #860 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 379 | #752 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 356 | #791 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 250 | #1,036 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 236 | #1,047 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 232 | #1,075 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 240 | #1,036 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 250 | #1,004 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 261 | #1,012 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 271 | #983 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 279 | #964 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 290 | #910 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 249 | #982 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 301 | #824 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 233 | #989 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 199 | #1,067 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 174 | #1,176 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 163 | #1,216 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 152 | #1,237 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 146 | #1,242 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 170 | #1,104 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 151 | #1,192 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 112 | #1,436 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 140 | #1,233 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 145 | #1,192 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 135 | #1,262 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 129 | #1,286 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 97 | #1,564 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 109 | #1,380 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 95 | #1,445 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 91 | #1,432 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 67 | #1,735 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 48 | #2,172 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,471 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,272 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,289 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,410 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,156 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,434 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,432 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,307 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,793 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,056 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,216 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,370 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,902 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,556 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,071 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,468 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,037 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amaris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,168 Americans recorded as Amaris, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amaris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amaris, and how old are they?
10,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,168 Americans ever recorded as Amaris. The median Amaris alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 6,601 people named Amaris (6,329 women and girls, 272 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,871 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 X | 1965-1980 | 275 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,620 |
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 Amaris born?
The states with the most babies named Amaris are Texas, California and Florida, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 78 | #471 | 1.7× |
| California | 62 | #530 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 32 | #651 | 1.1× |
| New York | 27 | #791 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 18 | #541 | 1.0× |
| New Mexico | 13 | #101 | 2.4× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #840 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 10 | #634 | 1.3× |
| Maryland | 10 | #512 | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #620 | 0.2× |
Where Amaris is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amaris is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1968 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 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 Amaris 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 10,900 babies since 1880, Amaris is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 425 of their 449 babies (95%), 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 Amaris
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 Amaris and names like it
- Compare Amaris and AmerisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmaris peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amaris since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Amaris.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amaris alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.