girls:
3.4k births since 1980
#2980 (48th percentile)
boys:
17 births since 2020
#4569 (0th percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1980
#4692 (39th percentile)
The name Amariah is the #4,692 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,395 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 39.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,980 (47.9% percentile) for all time with 3,378 births since 1980. For boys, it ranks #4,569 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 2020.
Amariah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (1980 for girls and 2020 for boys). Birth data for Amariah is available in 37 out of the 44 years between 1980 and 2023 (37 years for girls and 3 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 Amariah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Amariah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 18.3% percentile (ranked #784) with 89 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 91 births per million (ranked 16.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Amariah is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #792 (16.4% percentile) with 91 births per million.
For boys, Amariah reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #899) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Amariah ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 72.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Amariah".
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Our model has identified 16 different pronunciations for the name Amariah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 19.0% confident that Amariah is pronounced as uh-mah-RAI-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-MAH-ree-uh, at 14.3% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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