Amara
The 2025 national count puts Amara at #98, and it is climbing. A newer arrival, the national records only pick it up in 1961, with 28,982 bearers to date.
Amara’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Amara, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Amara since 1961
Amara is at its all-time peak right now: #98 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Amara is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Amara runs strongest in New Mexico at 0.56% in 2025, then Vermont and District of Columbia.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Amara
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Athena
#109 in 2025
Ariana
#128 in 2025
Alina
#130 in 2025
Amira
#132 in 2025
Alani
#161 in 2025
Ailani
#168 in 2025
Ariella
#174 in 2025
Adalynn
#184 in 2025
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About Amara
How common is Amara today?
The 2025 national count puts Amara at #98, and it is climbing. The chart above draws the whole run since 1961, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Amara mean?
The public-domain references we cite do not record a meaning for Amara, so this page does not invent one.
Is there a sibling name for Amara?
Athena, Ariana and Alina sit nearest to Amara on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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