Amare
Amare is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 72 births. Its best rank was 426th, in 2011.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 720.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2011639 births
- Best rank
- #426in 2011
- Since 1997
- 6,471people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,091 boys have been named Amare in the United States since 1997, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2011, with 639 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 56%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 380 girls have also been given it, 5.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2011, its biggest year
Amare was the 426th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2011 were Jacob, Mason, William, Jayden and Noah. See all of 2011.
Names that rose and fell with Amare
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aidynpeak 2011
- Kaydinpeak 2010
- Braylonpeak 2009
- Zadenpeak 2012
- Braylanpeak 2011
- Jaydenpeak 2009
- Kaidanpeak 2010
- Rylanpeak 2011
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.