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Amari vs Amayah

American parents have registered 53,282 Amaris since 1880, against 5,653 Amayahs. Amari is still ahead, with 2,804 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amari Amayah

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 2018, when Amari had 2,141 and Amayah had 332.

Side by side

  Amari Amayah
Total US births 53,2825,653
Most in one year 3,427419
Babies in 2025 2,804323
Estimated living today 53,0005,600
Median age today 98
Peak year 20232022
Best rank 151st boys704th girls
Rank in 2025 185th841st
First recorded 19741998
Girls / boys 21,288 / 31,9945,653 / 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.

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 Amari Amayah
England and Wales 3,1291,373
France 70110
Scotland 2232
Belgium 1613
Ireland 224

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 Amayah.