Entry № 511 · Yoruba origin

Amari Amari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-MAR-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yoruba
Meaning
"Strength / eternal (top-200 unisex US name)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Yoruba)

A name that means "strength / eternal (top-200 unisex us name)".

As a girls' name, Amari first entered the US top-1000 in 2008 and the top-500 in 2014; it appears in both the boys' and girls' lists for the past decade. Amari Cooper (born 1994) — American NFL wide receiver; selected 4th overall in the 2015 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys; five-time Pro Bowl selection; one of the most-decorated NFL receivers of his draft class (male reference, but the name is unisex). Amari Bailey — male basketball player. Amari is also the Sanskrit word amari ("eternal"), giving the name a parallel use in Hindu-Indian families.

Strength / eternal (top-200 unisex US name) — a Yoruba name.

The name in its native script.

Amari
Transliteration
Amari
Pronunciation
/ əˈmɑːr.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amari stands.

Amari does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Amaris before her.

Real people
Amari Cooper
American NFL wide receiver.
born 1994
In fiction
Amari
Various American culture.

Names connected to Amari.

The number behind Amari.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amari reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.