How many Amarees are there in the world?

No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Amaree are estimated to be alive in the US today.

How do you spell Amaree?

Amaree is one of 2 recorded spellings. Amare is the more common one — 59 births in 2025 against 24 for Amaree.

How popular is the name Amaree in 2025?

Amaree ranks #4249 among US boy names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.

How rare is the name Amaree?

About 1 in every 71,170 US boys born in 2025 was named Amaree — 24 in all.

Will my child share the name Amaree with classmates?

Amaree will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Amaree

Masculine

Amaree is given to both — 1,013 boys and 812 girls since 1880. See Amaree as a girl name See other names given to both

#4249 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year

rare24 boys in 2025

Amaree is a spelling of Amari, one of the most successful American constructions of the last thirty years — and it stands near several real words.

How old is the name Amaree?

Amaree first appears in US birth records in 1997 — 28 years ago. The typical Amaree alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,000 people named Amaree are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Amaree most popular?

Amaree peaked in 2010, reaching #2169 nationally. Today it ranks #4249, 2,080 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.

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Where it comes from

Origin, sound and short forms

Our story of Amaree

Ours, offered as ours. Amari appeared in American records in the 1990s, rose fast, and spawned a whole family — Amaree, Amare, Jamari, Kamari, Zamari, Damari. That is the ordinary life cycle of a productive ending: a name catches, its shape comes loose, and a dozen relatives follow within a decade. The meanings attached to it in name lists have no support, and the pattern itself is the documented thing.

Meaningnot established

Not established

No source is established. Yoruba Amari has been offered as strength, and Arabic amir, a commander, stands nearby; neither is documented for the American name. The -ari ending has been highly productive in American naming since the 1990s.

Pronouncing Amaree

uh-MAR-ee

Three syllables with the stress in the middle. There is little variation.

Nicknames for Amaree

Moderate

AmaThe front clip

MariTakes the back of the name

ReeTakes the ending

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: 1997
Most boys named: 200961 — the highest on record
Peak rank: #2169reached in 2010
Change vs 2024: +4.3%24 in 2025, from 23

Amaree sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2009, with 61 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Amaree in other languages

The same name elsewhere

Amari in English — spelling variant
Amir in Arabic — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan.

Amarees among us

1,000

people named Amaree are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 71,170 born in 2025 was named Amaree

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Amaree

#4249
Amaree on the 2025 chart: #845
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amaree went to 24 boys in 2025, but Amare is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 83, which makes it the 845th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,404 places above the chart.

Amare59
Amaree24

About 1 boy in 20,579 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 71,170 for Amaree itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

What happens to a name after it peaks

The Devone test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amaree's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Devone climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Devone's path sketches the road Amaree is walking now.

40%chance Amaree will feel “very 2010s” by 2040

Amaree, aligned on its peakDevone· peak 1987not yet written

Amaree today is about where Devone stood in 2002 — 15 years past a #2169-sized peak. By 2017, Devone had settled around #9323.

Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Amaree 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

Amaree beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Amaree in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Amareethis name24#4249Guadalupe24#4249Denny24#4249Hughes24#4249Erling24#4249

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths

Mari is a complete short form with lives in several languages.
Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
It works for a boy or a girl, which is useful before a birth.

What to consider

Amari is the standard spelling and will be written for him.
Amaree, Amari, Amare and Amarie are all in use and none is dominant.
There is no documented meaning.

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Frequently asked

How many Amarees are there in the world?: No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Amaree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Amaree?: Amaree is one of 2 recorded spellings. Amare is the more common one — 59 births in 2025 against 24 for Amaree.
How popular is the name Amaree in 2025?: Amaree ranks #4249 among US boy names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Amaree?: About 1 in every 71,170 US boys born in 2025 was named Amaree — 24 in all.
Will my child share the name Amaree with classmates?: Amaree will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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