Amarie
Feminine
Amarie is given to both — 2,474 girls and 494 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Amarie is a compound of the American kind: a short opening syllable and Marie on the end, joined into one word. Marie has been doing that job in American naming for a century, and it is one of the most-used second halves there is.
How old is the name Amarie?
Amarie first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Amarie alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 2,500 people named Amarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amarie most popular?
Amarie peaked in 2005, reaching #1488 nationally. Today it ranks #2859, 1,371 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Amarie
Our story of Amarie is about Marie doing what Marie does. In Catholic naming almost every daughter received it as a second name, whether or not anyone used it, and the sheer weight of that made it something else: a syllable so familiar that it could be attached to anything and the result would sound like a name. Annemarie, Rosemarie, Jomarie, Amarie. It is one of the very few name-elements in English that behaves like a suffix — it has stopped pointing at Mary and started simply meaning 'this is a girl's name'. Amarie was built with it, and the building is the interesting part.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The second half is Marie, the French Mary, and Mary's own meaning has never been settled. The first half is not documented: A- and Ama- are live openings in current American naming, and Amara, Amari and Amaya all sit nearby, each with its own claims and none of them established as the source. The compound appears without a recorded derivation, which means any meaning offered for the whole is really Marie's, borrowed.
Pronouncing Amarie
ah-muh-REE
Three syllables with the stress on the last, following Marie. AM-uh-ree, with the stress at the front, is also heard in American use and neither has settled.
Nicknames for Amarie
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
- 1995
- Most girls named
- 2006142 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1488reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −1.7%59 in 2025, from 60
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.
Amarie in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Georgia.
Amaries among us
people named Amarie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 27,242 born in 2025 was named Amarie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amarie
- #2859
- Amarie on the 2025 chart
- #893
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amarie went to 59 girls in 2025, but Amariee is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 67, which makes it the 893rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,966 places above the chart.
- Amarie59
- Amariee8
About 1 girl in 23,989 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 27,242 for Amarie 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 Jeneen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amarie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jeneen climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jeneen's path sketches the road Amarie is walking now.
Amarie 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 Amarie is headed
Amarie 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.
Amarie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amarie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Three easy syllables that English speakers manage at first sight.
- Marie and Mari are ready short forms and both are established names.
- Familiar-sounding without being any of the common names it resembles.
- It has no documented meaning of its own, so anything offered is borrowed from Marie.
- Amarie, Amari, Amaree and Ammarie are all in use and none is standard.
- The two stress patterns both circulate, so the child will be correcting people.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amaries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,500 people named Amarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amarie?
- Amarie is the most-used spelling in US records — 59 of the 67 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Amariee.
- How popular is the name Amarie in 2025?
- Amarie ranks #2859 among US girl names in 2025, with 59 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amarie?
- About 1 in every 27,242 US girls born in 2025 was named Amarie — 59 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amarie with classmates?
- Amarie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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