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Amari vs Amarri

American parents have registered 53,282 Amaris since 1880, against 739 Amarris. Amari is still ahead, with 2,804 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amari Amarri

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 2003, when Amari had 1,397 and Amarri had 40.

Side by side

  Amari Amarri
Total US births 53,282739
Most in one year 3,42743
Babies in 2025 2,80413
Estimated living today 53,000730
Median age today 914
Peak year 20232015
Best rank 151st boys3,591st boys
Rank in 2025 185th10,695th
First recorded 19741997
Girls / boys 21,288 / 31,994338 / 401

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 Amarris alive today are over 14; half the Amaris are over 9. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Amari Amarri
England and Wales 3,1297

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: Amari and Amarri.