Fun Facts About the Name Amaris
- More than 10 thousand babies named Amaris: U.S. records list 10,164 babies given the name Amaris from 1880 through 2025. Even 746 boys received the name Amaris - about 1 boy for every 13 girls.
What Does the Name Amaris Mean?
Amaris is a feminine given name used in modern English and is usually explained as meaning "promised by God." That meaning comes from Hebrew. The Hebrew verb amar (אָמַר) means "he said" or "he spoke," and the biblical name Amariah (Amaryahu) joins that root to the divine name, giving the sense "Yahweh has spoken" or "Yahweh has promised." Amaris is commonly treated as a shortened modern form of that name, though the link is a matter of convention rather than a documented chain of transmission.
A second, competing explanation derives the name from Latin amarus, "bitter," the same root behind the name Amara. That would give a literal sense of "bitter" rather than "promised by God," and it stands as an alternative to the Hebrew explanation rather than combining with it. The resemblance to Latin amor and to the Spanish and Italian words for love is sometimes offered as a meaning, but that is a symbolic association based on sound and spelling, not the name's linguistic source. Which derivation is original remains uncertain.
Amaris Name History & Origins
Amaris belongs with a set of feminine names ending in -is that became common in English-speaking countries in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Its recorded use is chiefly in the United States, where it appears as an English given name; it is not an old name with a continuous record in Hebrew, Greek, or Latin sources.
The older forms behind it are those of the biblical Amariah, borne by several minor figures in the Hebrew Bible, including a priest in the reign of King Jehoshaphat and an ancestor of the prophet Zephaniah. Amaris itself is a recent reshaping of that stock of names rather than an ancient form, so its development should be distinguished from the long history of Amariah and its variants.
Name writers also connect Amaris to Amara, a name of Latin origin, but that association rests on similarity of sound and spelling rather than on documented descent from one name to the other, and the two should not be treated as the same name.
How Popular is the Name Amaris?
Amaris recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2016. Its best rank was #751 in 2016.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #754 | 360 | 0.0224% |
| 2024 | #859 | 313 | 0.0194% |
| 2023 | #913 | 290 | 0.0181% |
| 2022 | #909 | 301 | 0.0184% |
| 2021 | #930 | 285 | 0.0174% |
| 2020 | #894 | 296 | 0.0183% |
| 2019 | #813 | 336 | 0.0200% |
| 2018 | #858 | 315 | 0.0185% |
| 2017 | #860 | 318 | 0.0184% |
| 2016 | #751 | 379 | 0.0214% |
| 2015 | #791 | 356 | 0.0199% |
| 2014 | #1,036 | 250 | 0.0140% |
| 2013 | #1,047 | 236 | 0.0135% |
| 2012 | #1,075 | 232 | 0.0132% |
| 2011 | #1,035 | 240 | 0.0136% |
| 2010 | #1,004 | 250 | 0.0141% |
| 2009 | #1,012 | 261 | 0.0142% |
| 2008 | #983 | 271 | 0.0143% |
| 2007 | #964 | 279 | 0.0145% |
| 2006 | #910 | 290 | 0.0153% |
| 2005 | #982 | 249 | 0.0135% |
| 2004 | #824 | 301 | 0.0164% |
| 2003 | #990 | 233 | 0.0128% |
| 2002 | #1,068 | 199 | 0.0111% |
| 2001 | #1,177 | 174 | 0.0097% |
| 2000 | #1,218 | 163 | 0.0090% |
| 1999 | #1,239 | 152 | 0.0086% |
| 1998 | #1,244 | 146 | 0.0083% |
| 1997 | #1,105 | 170 | 0.0098% |
| 1996 | #1,194 | 151 | 0.0086% |
| 1995 | #1,439 | 112 | 0.0064% |
| 1994 | #1,236 | 140 | 0.0078% |
| 1993 | #1,194 | 145 | 0.0080% |
| 1992 | #1,264 | 135 | 0.0073% |
| 1991 | #1,290 | 129 | 0.0069% |
| 1990 | #1,568 | 97 | 0.0051% |
| 1989 | #1,383 | 109 | 0.0059% |
| 1988 | #1,446 | 95 | 0.0053% |
| 1987 | #1,433 | 91 | 0.0052% |
| 1986 | #1,736 | 67 | 0.0039% |
| 1985 | #2,173 | 48 | 0.0028% |
| 1984 | #2,472 | 38 | 0.0023% |
| 1983 | #2,273 | 42 | 0.0025% |
| 1982 | #2,289 | 43 | 0.0025% |
| 1981 | #2,410 | 40 | 0.0024% |
| 1980 | #2,156 | 47 | 0.0028% |
| 1979 | #2,434 | 38 | 0.0024% |
| 1978 | #2,432 | 36 | 0.0024% |
| 1977 | #2,307 | 39 | 0.0025% |
| 1976 | #2,794 | 27 | 0.0018% |
| 1975 | #3,056 | 23 | 0.0016% |
| 1974 | #3,216 | 21 | 0.0014% |
| 1973 | #4,371 | 13 | 0.0009% |
| 1972 | #3,902 | 15 | 0.0010% |
| 1971 | #5,558 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1970 | #5,072 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1969 | #5,468 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1968 | #7,038 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,183 | 65 | 0.0038% |
| 2024 | #2,230 | 64 | 0.0037% |
| 2023 | #1,734 | 95 | 0.0056% |
| 2022 | #1,573 | 112 | 0.0064% |
| 2021 | #2,298 | 60 | 0.0034% |
| 2020 | #2,392 | 55 | 0.0032% |
| 2019 | #3,496 | 32 | 0.0018% |
| 2018 | #4,096 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2017 | #4,749 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2016 | #3,778 | 28 | 0.0015% |
| 2015 | #3,514 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 2014 | #6,318 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2013 | #5,937 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2012 | #10,851 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #12,381 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #7,103 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2009 | #6,822 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2008 | #6,781 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2007 | #7,118 | 11 | 0.0005% |
| 2006 | #8,761 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2005 | #8,333 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2004 | #7,000 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2003 | #6,742 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2002 | #7,674 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2001 | #6,951 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2000 | #6,865 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1999 | #8,751 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1993 | #6,846 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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