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Amaryllis

#2,439 in 2025Girls' name

To sparkle

Amaryllis has been given to 1,852 babies in the U.S. since 1926. In 2025 it ranked #2,439 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Amaryllis, 2025

1 in 45,400

Amaryllis over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amaryllis: meaning, origin, and history

To sparkle

Ancient Greek and Latin

What Amaryllis means

Amaryllis means “to sparkle”.

Origin, language, and formation

Amaryllis is used in English and Latin. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Latin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Amaryllis is pronounced [a.maˈryl.lɪs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,852 girls were recorded with the name Amaryllis between 1926 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 73 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,139 in 1927.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,633 in 2020 to #2,439 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,558 in 2015 to #2,439 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Amaryllis?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 45,400
73 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 22,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,439
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,479 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amaryllis 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,479 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amaryllis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amarylliss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amaryllis was born before 2009 — so the typical Amaryllis is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,535
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Choose a decade

2010s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (503).

Is Amaryllis 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
+256
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+194
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+119
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.04×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2023 (73)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,139
1927

Spellings of Amaryllis

Amaryllis is the most-used spelling, taking 71.3% of the 2,599 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Amaryllis is used

Across 2016–2025, Amaryllis was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 28,280 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 20,000
  3. 3New York1 in 25,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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.

Amaryllis around the world

Where Amaryllis 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
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1978–2025
    #3,301
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1946–1992
    #704
    in 1992

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.

Amaryllis by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,439
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 194
Best rank ever
#1,139
1927
Peak year
2023
73 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,852
Count in 2025
73

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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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