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Amaru Amaru — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-MAH-roo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Serpent (Quechua-Aymara + Túpac Amaru Inca emperor)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Quechua)

A name that means "serpent (quechua-aymara + túpac amaru inca emperor)".

Amaru is from the Quechua-Aymara amaru — serpent. Amaru is one of the Quechua-Aymara unisex names — central to traditional Inca + Andean Indigenous heritage.

Serpent (Quechua-Aymara + Túpac Amaru Inca emperor).

The name in its native script.

Amaru
Transliteration
Amaru
Pronunciation
/ əˈmɑː.ruː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amaru stands.

Amaru 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.

Amarus before her.

Real people

In fiction
Túpac Amaru
Last Sapa Inca + 18th-c. anti-colonial Andean leader.

Names connected to Amaru.

The number behind Amaru.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amaru reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.