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Amari vs Amarianna

American parents have registered 53,282 Amaris since 1880, against 581 Amariannas. Amari is still ahead, with 2,804 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amari Amarianna

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 2013, when Amari had 1,536 and Amarianna had 34.

Side by side

  Amari Amarianna
Total US births 53,282581
Most in one year 3,42737
Babies in 2025 2,80416
Estimated living today 53,000580
Median age today 911
Peak year 20232019
Best rank 151st boys3,923rd girls
Rank in 2025 185th6,838th
First recorded 19741999
Girls / boys 21,288 / 31,994581 / 0

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 Amariannas alive today are over 11; half the Amaris are over 9. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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