Amara

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Amara: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Amara: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #68, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
64times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#68highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#661
1997	#721
1998	#817
1999	#780
2000	#712
2001	#816
2002	#643
2003	#653
2004	#551
2005	#538
2006	#526
2007	#454
2008	#452
2009	#394
2010	#409
2011	#372
2012	#317
2013	#329
2014	#295
2015	#278
2016	#224
2017	#212
2018	#185
2019	#162
2020	#160
2021	#173
2022	#155
2023	#124
2024	#118

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2025: #76 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, #443 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #661 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2023–2025
Highest recorded position: #68 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 2023 (recorded 2023–2025).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #76 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 2025.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Amara appears in 6 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 4,423 births with the name.

Amara across 6 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Amara's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#661 (1996)	#118 (2024)	#118 (2024)	29 of 29	4,423 (1996–2024)	414 (2024)
England and Wales · Boys	#3225 (2002)	#3048 (2022)	#3048 (2022)	8 of 21	30 (2002–2022)	6 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#937 (2011)	#404 (2023)	#443 (2025)	13 of 15	75 (2011–2025)	9 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#353 (2016)	#227 (2024)	#227 (2024)	8 of 9	37 (2016–2024)	7 (2022)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#68 (2023)	#68 (2023)	#76 (2025)	3 of 3	281 (2023–2025)	98 (2023)
New Zealand · Girls	#95 (2021)	#95 (2021)	#98 (2022)	2 of 2	86 (2021–2022)	44 (2021)

Amara by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Amara in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	125	4 of 10	31
2000s	627	10 of 10	63
2010s	1,932	10 of 10	193
2020sbusiest	1,739	5 of 10	348

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 348 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 86, from 316 to 402.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Amara appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #68 in New South Wales, Australia in 2023.

Amara's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#118	414	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#124	402	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#155	316	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3048	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#173	293	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#160	314	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#162	310	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#185	283	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#212	243	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#224	233	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#278	177	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#295	160	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#329	140	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#317	153	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#372	126	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#409	107	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#394	107	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#452	94	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#454	89	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#526	69	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#538	63	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#551	57	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#653	44	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#643	42	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#816	29	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#712	33	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#780	29	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#817	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#721	33	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#661	36	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	female	#76	96	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	New South Wales, Australia	female	#82	87	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New South Wales, Australia	female	#68	98	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	New Zealand	female	#98	42	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	female	#95	44	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#227	7	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#264	6	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#243	7	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	8	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#504	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#404	9	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	9	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	7	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#113	39	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #68, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 5 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 414 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Amanuel · #302, 43y
Amar · #327, 42y
Amara-Rose · #2615, 10y
Amarachi · #476, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Zoey · #66, 32y
Fletcher · #65, 30y
Mateo · #65, 31y
Zac · #65, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Lexie · #68, 30y
Lyla · #68, 27y
Brock · #69, 27y
Filippa · #67, 27y

Amara was ranked #68 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Amara and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Amara without appearing here.

Amara moved ahead of

Ole Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3959 and #3959 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3048 and #4789.
Barry Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3959 and #2259 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3048 and #4001.
Grant Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3959 and #1683 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3048 and #4001.
Isak Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4812 and #2052 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #3959 and #4749.

Moved ahead of Amara

Violet Compare
In 2004 they stood at #551 and #607 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #538 and #273.
Ava Compare
In 1996 they stood at #661 and #753 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #721 and #500.
Willow Compare
In 1997 they stood at #721 and #983 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #817 and #597.
Sienna Compare
In 1998 they stood at #817 and #1122 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #780 and #641.

Moved the opposite way to Amara

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amara went from #661 to #118 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amara went from #661 to #118 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amara went from #661 to #118 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amara went from #661 to #118 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Amara

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amara went from #661 to #118 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amara went from #661 to #118 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amara went from #661 to #118 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amara went from #661 to #118 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #68 in New South Wales, Australia in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Amara

Amara at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Amara across 6 official records

Amara by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Amara appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Amara

Amara and the names beside it

Amara moved ahead of

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Amara at a glance

Amara across 6 official records

Amara by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Amara appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Amara

Amara and the names beside it

Amara moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Amara

Moved the opposite way to Amara

Moved the same way as Amara