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    The surname Amari

    An Italian surname, carried by 665 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex A560 Also a first name

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Amari is more common than 79% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    The surname is of multiple origins, including: * A variant of Amaro, from Italian Amaro. * A variant of Amar, from Arabic عَمَّار (ʕammār). See also Umari, Umar, Omar, and Amar. * A Japanese surname ultimately deriving from Japanese 余り (amari, “remainder, surplus”).

    One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 665 people named Amari in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 464,279 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 639.

    #34,149
    rank among US surnames
    665
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.1%
    change since 2000 (was #33,653)

    Who is named Amari

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    81% of people named Amari identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Amari

    Amari has the Soundex code A560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A560.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Amari come from?
    The surname is of multiple origins, including: * A variant of Amaro, from Italian Amaro. * A variant of Amar, from Arabic عَمَّار (ʕammār). See also Umari, Umar, Omar, and Amar. * A Japanese surname ultimately deriving from Japanese 余り (amari, “remainder, surplus”).
    How common is the surname Amari?
    665 people in the United States had the surname Amari in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 464,279 Americans. It ranked 34,149th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Amari?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Amari identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Amari getting more or less common?
    More common. 639 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 665 in 2010, up 4.1%.
    Is Amari also a first name?
    Yes. Amari is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.