Amarah
#1,186 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Amarah has been given to 2,641 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #1,186 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 206 recorded.
Babies named Amarah, 2025
1 in 17,000
Amarah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Amarah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 17,000
- 195 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 8,240
- 0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,186
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 11,785 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Amarah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 11,785 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amarah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Amarahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Amarah was born before 2018 — so the typical Amarah is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 42.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,641
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (1,113).
Is Amarah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +155
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +148
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +927
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.14×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 94.7%
- Peak was 2019 (206)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.7% average annual change
Spellings of Amarah
Amarah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 64.3% against Amarah's 0.15%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Amarah is used
Across 2016–2025, Amarah was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 11,706 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Ohio1 in 5,263
- 2Michigan1 in 6,250
- 3Florida1 in 6,667
- 4Arizona1 in 7,692
- 5California1 in 11,111
- 6Indiana1 in 11,111
- 7Pennsylvania1 in 11,111
- 8Texas1 in 11,111
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Amarah around the world
Where Amarah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2025#705in 2025
- Scotland2015–2024#638in 2024
- Northern Ireland2017–2017#432in 2017
- France2021–2025#2,784in 2025
- Canada2007–2024#991in 2024
- South Australia1992–1992#704in 1992
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Amarah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Amarah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Amarah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Amarah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Amarah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.