Amerah
Amerah was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,735 among girls’ names; 444 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amerah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amerah?
#5,735 among girls’ names, 2025
Amerah rose from #7,645 in 2015 to #5,735 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 13.1 per million.
27 babies in 2009, the peak
Amerah peaked in 2009, when 27 girls were given it, #5,233 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,735 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,481 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,261 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,054 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,653 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,889 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,372 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,813 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,471 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,676 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,645 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,327 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,265 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,662 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,815 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,786 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,233 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,816 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,551 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,894 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,018 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,102 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,722 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,317 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,790 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,791 | 4.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,170 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,626 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,849 | 3.4 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,562 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amerah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amerah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amerah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amerah, and how old are they?
An estimated 440 Americans named Amerah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 305 people named Amerah (302 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 347 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 85,789 babies since 1880, Amerah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 7,258 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Amerah
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 Amerah and names like it
- Compare Amerah and AmaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAmerah peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Amerah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amerah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.