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Amaira vs Amari

American parents have registered 53,282 Amaris since 1880, against 1,035 Amairas. Amari is still ahead, with 2,804 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amaira against Amari, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amaira Amari

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Amari has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Amaira had 108 and Amari had 2,682.

Side by side

  Amaira Amari
Total US births 1,03553,282
Most in one year 1153,427
Babies in 2025 732,804
Estimated living today 1,00053,000
Median age today 59
Peak year 20222023
Best rank 1,782nd girls151st boys
Rank in 2025 2,438th185th
First recorded 20021974
Girls / boys 1,035 / 021,288 / 31,994

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Amaris alive today are over 9; half the Amairas are over 5. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Amaira Amari
England and Wales 3423,129
Ireland 622

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amaira and Amari.