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Amariah

#1,152 in 2025Girls' name

Yahweh has said

Amariah has been given to 3,791 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #1,152 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 201 recorded.

Babies named Amariah, 2025

1 in 16,500

Amariah over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amariah: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh has said

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amariah means

Amariah means “Yahweh has said”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,763 girls were recorded with the name Amariah between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 201 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,152 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,552 in 2020 to #1,152 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,667 in 2015 to #1,152 in 2025.

In the United States, 28 boys were recorded with the name Amariah between 2020 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2020; its best national rank was #9,613 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,613 in 2020 to #12,113 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Amariah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,500
201 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,000
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,152
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,433 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amariah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,433 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amariah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amariahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amariah was born before 2013 — so the typical Amariah is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,763
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (1,499).

Is Amariah 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
+132
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+400
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+515
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (201)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,152
2025

Spellings of Amariah

Amariah is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 51.9% against Amariah's 0.34%.

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 Amariah is used

Across 2016–2025, Amariah was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 11,707 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

218 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 5,556
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 5,882
  3. 3Texas1 in 6,667
  4. 4Florida1 in 7,143
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 9,091
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 11,111
  7. 7Michigan1 in 11,111
  8. 8North Carolina1 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.

Amariah around the world

Where Amariah 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 & Wales
    2004–2025
    #1,197
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,745
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Amariah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Amariah. Linked forms have their own page here.

Amaria

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Amariah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,152
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 400
Best rank ever
#1,152
2025
Peak year
2025
201 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,763
Count in 2025
201

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,113
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,500
Best rank ever
#9,613
2020
Peak year
2020
7 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Amariah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Amariah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Amariah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Amariah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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