Ameris — #14162 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ameris

The Social Security Administration has registered 355 babies named Ameris between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ameris currently holds the #14162 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Ameris is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 72 additional births since 2019.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ameris performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 148 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ameris shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 49 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ameris in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ameris 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 355 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.