Amaria
Feminine · “the Lord has said”
Amaria is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 2,912 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Amaria is the Lord has said — a Hebrew statement, and the name of several priests and Levites in Chronicles.
How old is the name Amaria?
Amaria first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Amaria alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 2,900 people named Amaria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amaria most popular?
Amaria peaked in 2004, reaching #1344 nationally. Today it ranks #1808, 464 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Amaryah to Amaria
The story of Amaria
Amariah is named several times in Chronicles as a priest and a Levite, including a chief priest in Jehoshaphat's reign. Separately, the -aria and -iah endings spread through American naming from the 1990s. Amaria appears in the American registers in the 2000s from both directions and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
the Lord has said, promised by God
The likeliest inherited route is the Hebrew Amaryah — amar, 'to say' or 'to promise', and Yah, the divine name. A second route treats Amaria as a modern American formation on the Am- front and -aria ending. The Hebrew name is genuine and the reading undisputed for it.
How the name formed
- Amaryah
- Amariah
- Amaria
Related forms: אמריה · Amariah · Amaria
Pronouncing Amaria
uh-MAR-ee-uh
Four syllables, stress on the second. Hebrew Amaryah places the stress at the end.
Nicknames for Amaria
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
- 1990
- Most girls named
- 2004158 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1344reached in 2004
- Change vs 2024
- −11.9%111 in 2025, from 126
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.
Amaria in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- אמריה in Hebrew — transliteration
- Amariah in English — spelling variant
- Amaria in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Georgia, Texas.
Amarias among us
people named Amaria are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 14,480 born in 2025 was named Amaria
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amaria
- #1808
- Amaria on the 2025 chart
- #602
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amaria went to 111 girls in 2025, but Amariah, Amariyah and Amariya and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 386, which makes it the 602nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,206 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 4,164 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 14,480 for Amaria 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
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Lucila test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amaria's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lucila climbed just as high around 1934, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lucila's path sketches the road Amaria is walking now.
Amaria 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
Where Amaria is headed
Amaria should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Amaria beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amaria in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a complete statement and is undisputed for the Hebrew route.
- Aria is available as a short form that is fully current.
- Four syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- The origin is split between a genuine Hebrew name and a modern coinage.
- Amariah is the fuller biblical spelling.
- Amara and Maria are close enough to cause confusion.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amarias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,900 people named Amaria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amaria?
- Amaria is one of 6 recorded spellings. Amariah is the more common one — 201 births in 2025 against 111 for Amaria.
- How popular is the name Amaria in 2025?
- Amaria ranks #1808 among US girl names in 2025, with 111 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amaria?
- About 1 in every 14,480 US girls born in 2025 was named Amaria — 111 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amaria with classmates?
- Amaria will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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