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Amara vs Amarii

American parents have registered 29,279 Amaras since 1880, against 1,393 Amariis. Amara is still ahead, with 2,639 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amara against Amarii, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amara Amarii

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

Amara has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1961 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Amara had 521 and Amarii had 74.

Side by side

  Amara Amarii
Total US births 29,2791,393
Most in one year 2,639109
Babies in 2025 2,63980
Estimated living today 29,0001,400
Median age today 67
Peak year 20252020
Best rank 98th girls1,962nd boys
Rank in 2025 98th3,089th
First recorded 19611998
Girls / boys 28,982 / 297597 / 796

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.

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 Amara Amarii
England and Wales 4,90265

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: Amara and Amarii.