Amaris — #860 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Amaris

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,058 babies named Amaris between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Amaris currently holds the #860 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 379 babies received it in a single year. Amaris is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 681 additional births since 1993.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Amaris performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,912 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Amaris shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,649 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Amaris in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Amaris in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 9,058 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.