How Many People Are Named Amariah?

3,762

people named Amariah are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 90,851 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,791 babies named Amariah in Social Security records from 1980 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,473

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,524

See the top 100

Peak Year

2025

206 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Biblical
Pronunciation: am-ə-RIE-ə (English)
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Means "YAHWEH has said" in Hebrew. This was the name of several Old Testament characters.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

AmaryahuYahweh

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.3%
Male
0.7%

Of the babies given the name Amariah, 99.3% were girls and 0.7% were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Amariah alive today is about 12 years old, and 98% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 18 in 2025.

Under 30 3,675
97.7%
30 to 59 87
2.3%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Amariah first appears in the records in 1980, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 206 babies.

Babies given the name each year, 1980 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Amariah has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,152, in 2025. In 2025 it ranked #1,152.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,152
Best rank#1,152 (2025)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,506 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Amariah alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Amariah were born in Texas than in any other state: about 495 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Amariah was given 2.8 times as often in Georgia, 2.2 times in Florida and 2 times in Texas.

Texas 495
California 324
Florida 288
Georgia 206
New York 137
Illinois 96
North Carolina 82
Ohio 68
Tennessee 61
Michigan 58
Virginia 46
Indiana 38
Arizona 35
Louisiana 35
New Mexico 30
Colorado 29
South Carolina 28
Washington 25
Missouri 22
Alabama 18
New Jersey 17
Pennsylvania 17
Maryland 16
Mississippi 11
Massachusetts 11
Oklahoma 10
Minnesota 7
Arkansas 5
Wisconsin 5

Look up another name

👤

⊙ We don't save the names you search.