Amerika

#12,007 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of America

Amerika has been given to 330 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #12,007 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Amerika, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amerika: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of America

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amerika means

Amerika is a variant of America.

Origin, language, and formation

Amerika is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include America.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 330 girls were recorded with the name Amerika between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2009; its best national rank was #5,136 in 2015.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,136 in 2015 to #12,007 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 Amerika?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 230,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #12,007; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Amerika 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amerika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amerikas were born

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

Median birth year: 2009; About 16 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 44.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 87.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 330; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Amerika 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: −6,871; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.27×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 25.9%; Peak was 2009 (27)
Years since peak: 16; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 46.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,136; 2015

Spellings of Amerika

Amerika is not the most common spelling — Amelia is, with 62.6% against Amerika's 0.07%.

Amelia62.6%281,130
Erika28.0%125,664
America3.0%13,522
Amaria0.65%2,912
Amerie0.59%2,648
Arika0.55%2,453
Marika0.51%2,292
Ambria0.47%2,106

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 Amerika is used

Across 1910–2025, Amerika was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 523,957 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Texas1 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. Amerika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amerika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #12,007
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #5,136; 2015
Peak year: 2009; 27 that year
First recorded: 1987
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 330
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Amerika

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

Ameliya Ameriah Ameilia Ameris Ameira Amellia Ameliah Amerah Ameliana Ameenah Ameliyah Amenah Ameila Amelina Parnika Ameyali Anshika Nainika Ameri Varnika Hanvika Amelya Ameria Jennika

Sibling names for Amerika

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

Sydni Shyann Sydnie Rhianna Jacquelin Halie Jaiden Jazmyne

For a brother

Kale Aaden Brennen Gavyn Jerimiah Jarod Keven Jamarcus

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