Amari

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Amari: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #218, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
61times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#218highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#2701
2002	#2105
2003	#3099
2004	#1715
2005	#3970
2006	#1983
2007	#2410
2008	#2487
2009	#1668
2010	#1815
2011	#1608
2012	#1387
2013	#1537
2014	#1702
2015	#1497
2016	#1327
2017	#1082
2018	#1083
2019	#724
2020	#655
2021	#720
2022	#624
2023	#647
2024	#510

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 boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #510 among girls in England and Wales, #541 among girls in Scotland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1765 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #218 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Amari appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,223 births with the name.

Amari across 4 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.

Amari'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 · Boys	#1765 (1996)	#218 (2023)	#233 (2024)	29 of 29	2,223 (1996–2024)	225 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#2701 (1998)	#510 (2024)	#510 (2024)	24 of 27	638 (1998–2024)	77 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#572 (2022)	#572 (2022)	#676 (2025)	4 of 4	16 (2022–2025)	5 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#898 (2024)	#885 (2025)	#885 (2025)	2 of 2	6 (2024–2025)	3 (2024)

Amari by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Amari in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	33	4 of 10	8
2000s	391	10 of 10	39
2010s	860	10 of 10	86
2020sbusiest	939	5 of 10	188

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 188 births a year.

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

Amari 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #218 in England and Wales in 2023.

Amari'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	#510	77	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#233	209	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#647	56	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#218	225	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#624	61	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#256	183	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#720	52	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#278	167	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#297	155	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#724	53	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#366	120	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1083	32	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#454	90	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1082	32	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#437	97	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1327	25	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#459	88	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1497	21	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#526	73	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1702	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#485	81	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1537	20	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#458	86	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1387	23	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#473	83	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1608	18	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#486	75	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1815	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#523	67	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1668	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#505	69	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2487	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#567	58	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#589	50	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#560	52	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#678	38	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1715	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#703	33	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#653	33	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#671	29	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#814	21	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1552	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1188	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #218, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 225 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

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 2022, 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.

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Amariah · #1230, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Bryn · #219, 29y
Kayley · #219, 30y
Rhian · #219, 31y
Samara · #219, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Elora · #218, 29y
Izzy · #218, 29y
Bryn · #219, 29y
Caidan · #217, 18y

Amari was ranked #218 in England and Wales · Boys 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.

Amari 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 Amari without appearing here.

Amari moved ahead of

Vicki Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1387 and #5876.
Francis Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1983 and #5061.
Brittany Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2487 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1815 and #4688.
Finn Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3970 and #3382 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1815 and #4688.

Moved ahead of Amari

Ada Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2105 and #2301 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #3099 and #1628.
Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1983 and #2137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2410 and #1573.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1702 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1497 and #1240.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #724 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #655 and #460.

Moved the opposite way to Amari

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amari went from #1765 to #233 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amari went from #1765 to #233 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amari went from #1765 to #233 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amari went from #1765 to #233 while Alexander went from #14 to #36.

Moved the same way as Amari

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amari went from #1765 to #233 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amari went from #1765 to #233 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amari went from #1765 to #233 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amari went from #1765 to #233 and Archie from #192 to #10.

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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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #218 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Amari

Amari at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Amari across 4 official records

Amari by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Amari appears in

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Amari across 4 official records

Amari by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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