Amarii
Feminine
Amarii is given to both — 597 girls and 796 boys since 1880. See Amarii as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Amarii is a spelling of Amari, a name that rose in American records in the 1990s for girls and boys alike, with two genuine neighbors in other languages and no confirmed parent.
How old is the name Amarii?
Amarii first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Amarii is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Amarii are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amarii most popular?
Amarii peaked in 2021, reaching #3435 nationally. Today it ranks #3645, 210 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Amarii
Ours, offered as ours. Amari appeared in the American records in the early 1990s and rose quickly for both sexes, which is unusual — most names lean one way from the start. Its shape explains part of it: three syllables, no hard consonants, an ending on an open vowel, and nothing in it that marks it as one thing or the other. The doubled i in this spelling adds nothing you can hear and everything you can see, which is the ordinary purpose of a respelling.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established. Genuine neighbors: Yoruba Amari, and the Italian and Hebrew Amar, from words for love and for saying. The doubled final i is a modern American spelling choice with no phonetic effect.
Pronouncing Amarii
uh-MAR-ee
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say AM-uh-ree.
Nicknames for Amarii
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
- 202145 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3435reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- +64.0%41 in 2025, from 25
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.
Amarii in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amari in English — spelling variant
- Amari in Yoruba — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Amariis among us
people named Amarii are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 39,202 born in 2025 was named Amarii
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amarii
- #3645
- Amarii on the 2025 chart
- #354
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amarii went to 41 girls in 2025, but Amari, Amary and Amarri are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 868, which makes it the 354th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,291 places above the chart.
- Amari804
- Amarii41
- Amary16
- Amarri7
About 1 girl in 1,852 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 39,202 for Amarii 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 Dawnya test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amarii's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dawnya climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dawnya's path sketches the road Amarii is walking now.
Amarii 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 Amarii is headed
Amarii is easing off slowly — about 15% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
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.
Amarii beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amarii in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Open vowels throughout make it easy to say in most languages.
- Mari and Ari are both complete names in their own right.
- It works for a girl or a boy, which is useful before a birth.
- Amari is the standard spelling and the doubled i will be corrected constantly.
- The stress is unsettled between the first and second syllables.
- There is no documented meaning for this spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amariis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Amarii are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amarii?
- Amarii is one of 4 recorded spellings. Amari is the more common one — 804 births in 2025 against 41 for Amarii.
- How popular is the name Amarii in 2025?
- Amarii ranks #3645 among US girl names in 2025, with 41 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amarii?
- About 1 in every 39,202 US girls born in 2025 was named Amarii — 41 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amarii with classmates?
- Amarii will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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