girls:
24k births since 1961
#918 (84th percentile)
boys:
275 births since 1988
#4311 (6th percentile)
overall:
24.3k births since 1961
#1629 (79th percentile)
The name Amara is the #1,629 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 24,298 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 79.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #918 (83.9% percentile) for all time with 24,023 births since 1961. For boys, it ranks #4,311 (5.9% percentile) for all time with 275 births since 1988.
Amara first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for girls and 1988 for boys). Birth data for Amara is available in 58 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (58 years for girls and 29 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Amara has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Amara reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 87.4% percentile (ranked #120) with 1,299 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 1,299 births per million (ranked 87.4% percentile). Despite a peak around 2009, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Amara is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #120 (87.4% percentile) with 1,299 births per million.
For boys, Amara reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #899) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Amara is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #899 (1.3% percentile) with 9 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Amara".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Amara.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Amara", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Amara.
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Amara. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Amara is pronounced as uh-MAH-ruh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ah-MAH-ruh, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Amara? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Amara. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Amara, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AH0 M AA1 R AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker