Amaryllis
Amaryllis was given to 73 girls in 2025, #2,439 among girls’ names; 1,852 Americans have been recorded with it since 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,570 Americans named Amaryllis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amaryllis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amaryllis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amaryllis is “a female given name from Latin or Ancient Greek.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amaryllis?
#2,439 among girls’ names, 2025
Amaryllis rose from #2,558 in 2015 to #2,439 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 39.2 to 45.4 per million.
73 babies in 2023, the peak
Amaryllis peaked in 2023, when 73 girls were given it, #2,446 among girls’ names. The 73 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,439 | 45.4 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,695 | 39.5 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,446 | 45.5 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,557 | 42.1 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,533 | 42.1 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,633 | 39.6 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,562 | 40.5 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,585 | 39.4 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,601 | 38.8 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,382 | 26.5 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,558 | 39.2 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,274 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,124 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,126 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,742 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,611 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,942 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,018 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,238 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,322 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,162 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,788 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,429 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,907 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,969 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,197 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,520 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,810 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,889 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,073 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,684 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,628 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,752 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,057 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,651 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,294 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,052 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,496 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,422 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,173 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,473 | 5.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,325 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,491 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,157 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,198 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,710 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,969 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,907 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,608 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,532 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,732 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,880 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,117 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,537 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,072 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,727 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,268 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,825 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,580 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,403 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,901 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,929 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,430 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,430 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,899 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,451 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,673 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,139 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,069 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,214 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,749 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,969 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,377 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,583 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,321 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,033 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,930 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,836 | 17.2 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,837 | 17.9 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,878 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,944 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,570 | 22.2 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,447 | 25.1 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,503 | 24.3 |
| 1927 | 45 | #1,139 | 37.7 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,883 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amaryllis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amaryllis has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amaryllis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amaryllis, and how old are they?
1,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 1,852 Americans ever recorded as Amaryllis. The median Amaryllis alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,143 people named Amaryllis (1,141 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,239 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 50 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 42 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 124 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 206 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 323 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 827 |
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 Amaryllis born?
The states with the most babies named Amaryllis are California, Texas and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #2,105 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,403 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,553 | 0.7× |
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 Amaryllis 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,747 babies since 1880, Amaryllis is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 73 of their 81 babies (90%), 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 Amaryllis
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 Amaryllis and names like it
- Compare Amaryllis and AmarilisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmaryllis peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amaryllis since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Amaryllis: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Amaryllis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amaryllis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.