Amara
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Amara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Abyssinian/Ethiopian: name for paradise; also Kiswahili 'urgent business'.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 17K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 590as Amira
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Amara itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 334 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 named Amira, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Amira in EG Egypt, SY Syria, MA Morocco and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Abyssinian/Ethiopian: name for paradise; also Kiswahili 'urgent business'.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amara counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #34 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 627 | — | Amira | 146 |
| DZ Algeria | #61 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Amira | 66 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | listed | Amira | 41 |
| TN Tunisia | #34 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 590 | 1.4K | Amira | 73 |
| MA Morocco | #295 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Amira | 62 |
| BR Brazil | #968 | 12,581 | 1 in 17K | 17K | Amara | 72 |
| SY Syria | #196 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Amira | 24 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Amara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, City in Siddhattha Buddha’s time; Sambahula and Sumitta became arahants there. BuA.186.
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
In English, A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage taken from fantasy fiction; explained, for example, as a Sanskrit word for "eternal".
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Hanuman (N); Jina (N); Kala (N); Krsna (N);
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Devasena (N); Parvati (N); Sankata (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Italian, forma feminina de Amaro
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amara Essyb. 1944CIIvorian diplomat
- Amara Traoréb. 1965SNSenegalese and French footballer
- Amara Dianéb. 1982CIIvorian and French footballer
- Amara Karanb. 1984GBBritish actress
- Amara Babyb. 1989FRSenegalese and French footballer
- Amara Romanib. 1993USpornographic performer (b. 1993—2023)
- Lana Rhoadesb. 1996USnot in their usual nameAmerican internet personality, podcaster and former pornographic film actress
- Amara Millerb. 2000USAmerican actress
- Amara Nallob. 2006GBEnglish association football player
- Amarasimhanot in their usual nameIndian poet
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 119 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 17K | #1,555 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 13K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 12K | #1,456 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 227 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 91 | #1,456 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Amara mean, and where does it come from?
- Abyssinian/Ethiopian: name for paradise; also Kiswahili 'urgent business'. Recorded by African Names.
- Is Amara a male or female name?
- Amara is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Amara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 166 thousand people named Amira in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Amara?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,581 people named Amara in 2022, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Amara compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Amara is the 34th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Amara?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amaraThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amara” — the 34th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.