| [ 3 syll. a-ma-ri, am-ari ] The girl name Amari is also used as a boy name, and more often so. It is pronounced aaMAARiy KEY. Amari is of Yoruba origin and it is used mainly in English. Derived literally from the word amari with the meaning 'strength'. Amari is rather popular as a baby girl name. The name has been rising in popularity since the 1990s; prior to that, it was of only irregular use. At the modest peak of its usage in 2003, 0.039% of baby girls were named Amari. It had a ranking of #388 then. In 2007, it ranked at #482 with a usage of 0.032%, and it was the most popular out of all girl names in its family. Although Amari is used more commonly as a boy name today, there was a period from 1996 to 2004 that it was more popular with girls. After 2005, increasingly the name became more popular with boys than with girls. There were 12% more boys than girls who were named Amari in 2006. Baby names that sound like Amari include the English Amara, the Arabic Amira, the Arabic Amirah, the Dutch, English, and German Annemarie, the English and Irish Honora, the French Honorée, the Arabic Ameera, the German Anna Marie, the English Annmarie, the Irish and Scottish Eimear, the Scottish Eimhear, the English Honoria, the English Honour, the German and Italian Anamaria, the German Anna Maria, the German and Italian Annamaria, and the German Annamarie. KEY: Pronunciation for Amari: AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"
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