Primarily a boy's name · Unisex — 41% girls / 59% boys
Amari is both a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include:
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Amari yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
2,419 births was Amari's peak count, set in 2023, the same year its rank hit its own high, #151. Both eased slightly the following year, to 2,158 births and #172 in 2024 — still 119% above where the name stood a decade earlier.
Amari's own SSA record opens a full century after the dataset itself, in 1974 — total births for the name now stand at 50,446.
No namesake shows up anywhere in the enrichment data, leaving this name's rapid rise with no documented cultural reference to explain it.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 | #4,654 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,489 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,551 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,501 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,056 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,358 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,920 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,249 |
| 1990 | 14 | #3,979 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,332 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,107 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,050 |
| 1994 | 43 | #1,928 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,917 |
| 1996 | 85 | #1,292 |
| 1997 | 149 | #914 |
| 1998 | 251 | #679 |
| 1999 | 230 | #715 |
| 2000 | 260 | #682 |
| 2001 | 300 | #631 |
| 2002 | 505 | #472 |
| 2003 | 613 | #419 |
| 2004 | 638 | #407 |
| 2005 | 666 | #410 |
| 2006 | 684 | #419 |
| 2007 | 879 | #360 |
| 2008 | 951 | #343 |
| 2009 | 1,088 | #299 |
| 2010 | 1,005 | #318 |
| 2011 | 1,056 | #306 |
| 2012 | 1,075 | #308 |
| 2013 | 955 | #337 |
| 2014 | 985 | #338 |
| 2015 | 1,366 | #267 |
| 2016 | 1,361 | #269 |
| 2017 | 1,323 | #275 |
| 2018 | 1,322 | #269 |
| 2019 | 1,593 | #239 |
| 2020 | 1,741 | #217 |
| 2021 | 1,920 | #200 |
| 2022 | 2,174 | #174 |
| 2023 | 2,419 | #151 |
| 2024 | 2,158 | #172 |
