Ameris
Ameris is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#13,308 among girls’ names and #10,770 among boys’, #14,367 among all names counting both); 439 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ameris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ameris?
#13,308 among girls’ names, 2025
Ameris fell from #7,296 in 2015 to #13,308 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 3.7 per million.
33 babies in 2022, the peak
Ameris peaked in 2022, when 33 babies were given it (20 girls, #6,002 among girls’ names). The 12 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 36% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,308 | 6 | #10,770 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,592 | 18 | #5,249 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,510 | 13 | #6,542 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,002 | 13 | #6,493 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,510 | 7 | #9,772 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,578 | 13 | #6,312 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,630 | 8 | #8,935 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,188 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,858 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,921 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,296 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,182 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,402 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,156 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,137 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,189 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,357 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,128 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,239 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,895 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,919 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,749 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,024 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,319 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,076 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,792 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,847 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ameris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 439 Americans recorded as Ameris, 82% are girls and 18% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ameris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ameris, and how old are they?
An estimated 436 Americans named Ameris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 308 people named Ameris (281 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 303 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 10,900 babies since 1880, Ameris is the second most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 449 babies (2.7%), again the second 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 Ameris
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 Ameris and names like it
- Compare Ameris and AmarisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmeris peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ameris since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Ameris.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ameris alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.