# Amara (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/amara/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 29,279 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 297 / 28,982 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4,902, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 491 | 587 |
| 2012 | 514 | 571 |
| 2013 | 497 | 578 |
| 2014 | 607 | 511 |
| 2015 | 691 | 459 |
| 2016 | 1,085 | 301 |
| 2017 | 1,500 | 206 |
| 2018 | 1,588 | 189 |
| 2019 | 1,998 | 140 |
| 2020 | 1,920 | 142 |
| 2021 | 1,924 | 142 |
| 2022 | 2,049 | 141 |
| 2023 | 2,282 | 123 |
| 2024 | 2,296 | 121 |
| 2025 | 2,630 | 98 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 8,800 |
| 2012 | 7 | 9,761 |
| 2013 | 11 | 7,052 |
| 2014 | 10 | 7,579 |
| 2015 | 15 | 5,759 |
| 2016 | 11 | 7,172 |
| 2017 | 10 | 7,579 |
| 2018 | 15 | 5,783 |
| 2019 | 11 | 7,202 |
| 2020 | 8 | 8,780 |
| 2021 | 11 | 7,122 |
| 2022 | 13 | 6,496 |
| 2023 | 17 | 5,480 |
| 2024 | 12 | 6,855 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,286 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 126 | 372 |
| 2012 | 153 | 317 |
| 2013 | 140 | 329 |
| 2014 | 160 | 295 |
| 2015 | 177 | 278 |
| 2016 | 233 | 224 |
| 2017 | 243 | 212 |
| 2018 | 283 | 185 |
| 2019 | 310 | 162 |
| 2020 | 314 | 160 |
| 2021 | 293 | 173 |
| 2022 | 316 | 155 |
| 2023 | 402 | 124 |
| 2024 | 414 | 118 |
| 2025 | 449 | 103 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |

## In other languages

- Portuguese: Amara

## People named Amara

- Amara Miller, American actress
- Amara Lakhous, Algerian writer, journalist and translator
- Amara Karan, British actress
- Amara Dunqas, First ruler of the Funj Sultanate from 1504 to 1533/4
- Amara Sy, French basketball player
- Amara Nallo, English association football player
- Lana Rhoades, American internet personality, podcaster and former pornographic film actress (born 1996)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.