Adamari
Feminine
Adamari is two relatives in one word. Puerto Rican and Dominican families have long built new names by fusing pieces of a grandmother's and a mother's, and Ada plus Mari is exactly that operation: an honor name that honors two people at once and belongs to neither of them.
How old is the name Adamari?
Adamari first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Adamari alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 2,000 people named Adamari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adamari most popular?
Adamari peaked in 2002, reaching #1205 nationally. Today it ranks #6325, 5,120 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Adamari
Honour naming has a problem: there is usually more than one person to honor, and only one child. Caribbean Spanish naming solved it by blending, taking the front of one name and the back of another to produce a word that carries two debts at once, which is why the region's records are full of names like Adamari, Yolimar, Anamaria and Marisol. The result is not a nickname and not a double name; it is a single new word that did not exist before that family made it. Adamari became nationally visible in the United States through the Puerto Rican actress Adamari Lopez, whose television work in the late 1990s and early 2000s coincides exactly with the name's American peak in 2002. The blending practice is far older than that visibility, and it is still running.
Meaningnot established
Not established
As a compound it has no meaning of its own. The parts are real names with real histories: Ada is Germanic, from adal, noble, and also a Hebrew name meaning adornment; Mari is a Spanish form of Maria, from Hebrew Miryam, whose sense is unresolved. A blend inherits the sounds of its sources and none of their meanings.
Pronouncing Adamari
ah-dah-MAH-ree
Four syllables with the stress on the third in Spanish. English speakers often move the stress forward to the first syllable, which flattens the name considerably.
Nicknames for Adamari
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most girls named
- 2002168 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1205reached in 2002
- Change vs 2024
- −18.2%18 in 2025, from 22
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Adamari in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Adamaris in Spanish — spelling variant
- Adamary in Spanish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Adamaris among us
people named Adamari are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was named Adamari
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tashia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Adamari's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tashia climbed just as high around 1980, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tashia's path sketches the road Adamari is walking now.
Adamari sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Adamari beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Adamari in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Carries two family names at once, which is exactly what it was built to do.
- Ada and Mari are both complete, usable names in their own right.
- Reads correctly in Spanish while remaining pronounceable in English.
- Adamaris with a final s is common and will be written instead.
- Four syllables is long for English-speaking settings, and it will be shortened.
- The compound has no meaning to explain, only two names to point at.
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Frequently asked
- How many Adamaris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Adamari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Adamari in 2025?
- Adamari ranks #6325 among US girl names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Adamari?
- About 1 in every 89,293 US girls born in 2025 was named Adamari — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Adamari with classmates?
- Adamari will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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