Amara
Meaning of Amara
Amara has more than one origin. In Igbo, a language of Nigeria, it means grace, and in Sanskrit it means immortal. In English it is pronounced uh-MAHR-uh, and in Italian and Spanish ah-MAH-rah.
Women with the name include Amara La Negra, an American singer and TV personality of Dominican descent, and the actress Amara Miller, who won a Young Artist Award for her debut in The Descendants.
In the U.S., Amara entered the top 100 for the first time in 2025, ranking 98th. That year 2,630 girls were given the name, the most on record. As recently as 2015 it ranked 459th. Among the 100 most popular girls' names of 2025, it is No. 8 for how fast it climbed the rankings from 2016 to 2025.
Pronunciation
Italian
- Pronunced as ah-MAH-rah (/aˈmaːra/)
Spanish
- Pronunced as ah-MAH-rah (/aˈmaɾa/)
British English
- Pronunced as uh-MAHR-uh (/əˈmɑːrə/)
American English
- Pronunced as uh-MAHR-uh (/əˈmɑrə/)
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Notable People Named Amara
| Amara Enyia is an American strategist, community organizer, and municipal consultant who coordinates policy for the Movement for Black Lives, chairs a UN civil society group, and twice ran for mayor of Chicago. |
| Amara La Negra, born Diana Danelys De Los Santos, is an American singer and TV personality of Dominican descent best known for Love and Hip Hop Miami, where Billboard named her the breakout star and she signed a multi album deal with BMG. |
| Amara, born Tuwuh Adijatitesih Amaranggana, is an Indonesian singer, actress, and model. |
| Amara Thornton is a historian of archaeology who studies late 19th and early 20th century British archaeologists in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean, linking their work to tourism, publishing and media, education, government policy, and women's history, and is an Honorary Research Associate at UCL. |
| Amara Karan - Amara Karunakaran is an English actress known for stage and film roles. |
| Amara Majeed is a Muslim American activist and author of The Foreigners, founder of The Hijab Project, and a BBC 100 Women honoree in 2015. |
| Amara Miller is an American actress who won a Young Artist Award for her debut in The Descendants. |
