Amara
Top 1000
About Amara
Strong, attractive, and stylish, Amara is a true multicultural choice enjoying some popularity in both the US and the UK. In the US Top 1000 since the turn of this century, Amara has been holding steady in the rankings between overly popular and obscure.
Amara is the Italian word for bitter, from the same root as Mary and Miriam. It has separate roots in West Africa as a name that means "grace" in the Igbo language. These two meanings are the best-known, but Amara is also a Sanskrit name meaning "immortal", an Arabic word meaning "tribe" and a Mongolian name meaning "peaceful". Alternatively, it can mean "to love" in various languages such as Galician and Portuguese.
Pronounced ah-MAR-ah.
As of October 2026, Amara ranked #98 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #124.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #511 | 607 | 339.8 |
| 2015 | #459 | 691 | 387.1 |
| 2016 | #301 | 1,085 | 612.3 |
| 2017 | #206 | 1,500 | 868.8 |
| 2018 | #189 | 1,587 | 932.9 |
| 2019 | #140 | 1,996 | 1,189.3 |
| 2020 | #142 | 1,918 | 1,186.5 |
| 2021 | #143 | 1,920 | 1,170.1 |
| 2022 | #141 | 2,046 | 1,247.5 |
| 2023 | #123 | 2,280 | 1,420.9 |
| 2024 | #121 | 2,288 | 1,412.2 |
| 2025 | #98 | 2,630 | 1,636.3 |
World rankings
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Amara on lists
Famous Amaras
- Amara Miller
American actress
- Amara
stage name of Tuwuh Adijatitesih Amaranggana, Indonesian actress
- Amara Karan
British actress
- Amara la Negra
stage name of Diana Danelys De Los Santos, American singer and reality TV personality ("Love & Hip,Hop: Miami")
- Amara Hyde (b. 2005)
daughter of TV personality Saira Khan and Steve Hyde
Amara in pop culture
- Amara Aquilla
also known as Magma, character in Marvel Universe
- Amara
an immortal character on TV's 'The Vampire Diaries'
- Amara Tenoh aka Sailor Uranus
character in manga/anime 'Sailor Moon'
- Amara
character in the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher
- Amara
"The Darkness," character on TV's "Supernatural"
- Amara
Warden of Hope, card from "Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft"
- Amara Creed
daughter or Adonis Creed and Bianca Taylor in Creed 2