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Amaru

#2,390 in 2025Boys' name

Snake

Amaru has been given to 1,025 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #2,390 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Amaru, 2025

1 in 58,200

Amaru over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amaru: meaning, origin, and history

Snake

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amaru means

Amaru means “snake”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 984 boys were recorded with the name Amaru between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 2021; its best national rank was #2,253 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,267 in 2020 to #2,390 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,987 in 2015 to #2,390 in 2025.

In the United States, 41 girls were recorded with the name Amaru between 2019 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2025; its best national rank was #8,895 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 Amaru?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 58,200
57 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 30,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,390
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
40,315 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amaru sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 40,315 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amaru. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amarus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amaru was born before 2016 — so the typical Amaru is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
34.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
984
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (342).

Is Amaru 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
−17
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−123
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,597
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.9%
Peak was 2021 (62)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,253
2021

Spellings of Amaru

Amaru is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 72.5% against Amaru's 0.05%.

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 Amaru is used

Across 1910–2025, Amaru was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 234,690 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Amaru has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amaru around the world

Where Amaru 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
    1999–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2007–2025
    #4,809
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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.

Amaru by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,390
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 123
Best rank ever
#2,253
2021
Peak year
2021
62 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
984
Count in 2025
57

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,895
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,895
2025
Peak year
2025
11 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
41
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Amaru

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

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Sibling names for Amaru

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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