Primarily a girl's name · 99% girls
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Amara yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Amara has grown 277% over the decade and set both records in 2024, on 2,288 births alongside rank 121. The record opens in 1961 and reaches 26,615 births, with no origin given and a single modern namesake who has no evident bearing on the trajectory. The name has independent roots in Igbo, Italian and Sanskrit, none of which the enrichment file captures, and that multiplicity is probably the point — it reads as familiar to families from very different backgrounds without belonging exclusively to any of them. Names that work across several traditions at once have been among the strongest performers of the past decade, and Amara is a cleaner example of the pattern than most.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 | #6,592 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,056 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,157 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,431 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,587 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,373 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,548 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,160 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,557 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,813 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,291 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,911 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,687 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,863 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,868 |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,492 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,493 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,097 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,575 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,810 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,838 |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,748 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,864 |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,750 |
| 1990 | 131 | #1,253 |
| 1991 | 107 | #1,475 |
| 1992 | 114 | #1,423 |
| 1993 | 103 | #1,518 |
| 1994 | 115 | #1,400 |
| 1995 | 139 | #1,230 |
| 1996 | 146 | #1,215 |
| 1997 | 169 | #1,111 |
| 1998 | 179 | #1,080 |
| 1999 | 197 | #1,033 |
| 2000 | 287 | #797 |
| 2001 | 263 | #870 |
| 2002 | 297 | #790 |
| 2003 | 406 | #652 |
| 2004 | 456 | #607 |
| 2005 | 501 | #571 |
| 2006 | 511 | #573 |
| 2007 | 522 | #577 |
| 2008 | 534 | #577 |
| 2009 | 516 | #586 |
| 2010 | 447 | #654 |
| 2011 | 491 | #587 |
| 2012 | 514 | #571 |
| 2013 | 497 | #578 |
| 2014 | 607 | #511 |
| 2015 | 691 | #459 |
| 2016 | 1,085 | #301 |
| 2017 | 1,500 | #206 |
| 2018 | 1,587 | #189 |
| 2019 | 1,996 | #140 |
| 2020 | 1,918 | #142 |
| 2021 | 1,920 | #143 |
| 2022 | 2,046 | #141 |
| 2023 | 2,280 | #123 |
| 2024 | 2,288 | #121 |
