Amarilis

#10,985 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Amaryllis

Amarilis has been given to 747 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #10,985 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Amarilis, 2025

1 in 414,000

Amarilis over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amarilis: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Amaryllis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amarilis means

Amarilis is a form of Amaryllis.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Amarilis → Amaryllis. The family’s meaning is “to sparkle”, recorded in the naming reference for Amaryllis.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amaryllis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 747 girls were recorded with the name Amarilis between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1990; its best national rank was #3,518 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,303 in 2020 to #10,985 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,939 in 2015 to #10,985 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Amarilis?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #10,985; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Amarilis 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amarilis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amariliss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amarilis was born before 1993 — so the typical Amarilis is around 32 today.

Median birth year: 1993; About 32 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 36.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 747; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (184).

Is Amarilis 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: +192; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −682; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −46; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.89×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 29.6%; Peak was 1990 (27)
Years since peak: 35; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,518; 1985

Spellings of Amarilis

Amarilis is not the most common spelling — Amaris is, with 66.1% against Amarilis's 5.2%.

Amaris66.1%9,422
Amaryllis13.0%1,852
Marlis5.9%846
Marilin5.5%780
Amarilis5.2%747
Amarii4.2%597

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 Amarilis is used

Across 1910–2025, Amarilis was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 422,302 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 100,000
2California1 in —
3Connecticut1 in —
4New Jersey1 in —
5Pennsylvania1 in —
6Texas1 in —

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. Amarilis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amarilis by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #10,985
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 682
Best rank ever: #3,518; 1985
Peak year: 1990; 27 that year
First recorded: 1961
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 747
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Amarilis

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

Amaryllis Amarylis Amayrani Amarachi Amariyah Amarissa Amarelis Amariana Amairany Amairani Amariya Amarianna Amaiyah Amatullah Amauri Amaree Amaranta Aracelis Amaiah Amazing Amarii Amayiah Amaira Amaryah

Sibling names for Amarilis

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

For a sister

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For a brother

Elizabeth Coty Bradly Derrell Garrick Laron Brandan Kelsey

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