Amarion
Masculine
Amarion is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 4,423 boys against 44 girls since 1880.
Amarion is an American name in the fullest sense — it appears in the national record only in recent decades, made here rather than imported. Four syllables that roll off the tongue and land on the same -ion ending carried by Marion and Damarion, with the familiar Amari sitting right inside it. It has held its place quietly ever since it arrived, never surging, never disappearing.
How old is the name Amarion?
Amarion first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Amarion alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 4,400 people named Amarion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amarion most popular?
Amarion peaked in 2004, reaching #490 nationally. Today it ranks #1290, 800 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Amarion
Amarion belongs to a family of names assembled in the United States in the late twentieth century, when parents built new given names from familiar pieces — a recognizable core plus a resonant ending. Its core, Amari, was already in American use; its ending is the one Marion, Darion and Damarion share. It arrived on the national record near the close of that century and has stayed there without a boom, which is unusual for a modern coinage: most spike and fade. Its strongest showing has been in Texas, Ohio and Illinois, spread across the country rather than pooled in one region.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No established meaning. What is documented is the shape: Amarion contains Amari, itself a name used in the US with several competing explanations, and closes with the -ion ending shared by a whole group of American names. None of those connections has been shown to give Amarion a translatable sense, and anyone who offers you a tidy one is filling in a blank.
Pronouncing Amarion
uh-MAIR-ee-on
Stress falls on the second syllable. Some families say ah-MAHR-ee-on, with a rounder middle vowel; both are in use and neither is a correction of the other.
Nicknames for Amarion
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 boys named
- 2004505 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #490reached in 2004
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%151 in 2025, from 151
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.
Amarion in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Illinois.
Amarions among us
people named Amarion are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 11,312 born in 2025 was named Amarion
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 Furman test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amarion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Furman climbed just as high around 1900, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Furman's path sketches the road Amarion is walking now.
Amarion 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 Amarion is headed
Amarion 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.
Amarion beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amarion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Reads phonetically on first sight — the spelling and the sound match, so most people get it right aloud without help.
- Comes with ready-made short forms, Amari and Ari, both of which already work as names by themselves.
- Used across widely separated states rather than concentrated in one area, so it is not read as a regional name.
- Long enough to balance a short surname, and unusual enough that a child rarely shares it in a classroom.
- It sits in a crowded neighborhood of similar names — Amari, Amare, Damarion, Amarian — so expect to spell it out and to correct the occasional Amarian or Amarion-with-two-r's.
- No meaning has ever been established, which is fine as long as you are comfortable answering "what does it mean?" with "nothing settled — it was made here."
- Being the only one in a school cuts both ways: no confusion with a classmate, but also no chance of finding it pre-printed on a keychain or a pencil.
- At four syllables it is a mouthful in full, so a short form will likely get used whether or not you choose one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amarions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,400 people named Amarion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Amarion in 2025?
- Amarion ranks #1290 among US boy names in 2025, with 151 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amarion?
- About 1 in every 11,312 US boys born in 2025 was named Amarion — 151 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amarion with classmates?
- Amarion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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