Ammarah
#9,499 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ammarah has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #9,499 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Ammarah, 2025
1 in 332,000
Ammarah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ammarah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 161,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,499
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ammarah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ammarah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ammarahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ammarah was born before 2022 — so the typical Ammarah is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 60.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 73
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 60.3% of all recorded uses (44).
Is Ammarah 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
- +822
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +5,762
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 71.4%
- Peak was 2023 (14)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 60.1% average annual change
Spellings of Ammarah
Ammarah is not the most common spelling — Amara is, with 43.6% against Ammarah's 0.11%.
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.
Ammarah around the world
Where Ammarah 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 & Wales1996–2025#872in 2025
- Scotland1997–2003#553in 2003
- Canada2023–2024#3,457in 2024
- South Australia2013–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ammarah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ammarah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ammarah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.