Is Amara a male or female name?
Amara is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 99% and male usage in France at 58%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 95%
- Sample size
- 39,422
- Confidence
- high
Amara by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 99% | 26,577 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | female | 99% | 5,161 | ons |
| Spain ES | female | 87% | 2,589 | ine |
| Canada CA | female | 100% | 2,267 | statcan |
| France FR | male | 58% | 2,000 | insee |
| Switzerland CH | female | 94% | 504 | bfs |
| Austria AT | female | 99% | 204 | statat |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 75 | cso |
| Poland PL | female | 100% | 45 | pesel |
Attested in 14 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · IN · LV · PL · SE · US
Amara over time
In the United States, 100% of the babies named Amara in the 1970s were girls, against 99.4% in the 2020s. In France, 78.8% of the babies named Amara in the 1960s were girls, against 52.2% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | — | 79% | 165 | |
| 1970s | 100% | 214 | 63% | 150 |
| 1980s | 99% | 531 | 24% | 165 |
| 1990s | 98% | 1,428 | 18% | 140 |
| 2000s | 98% | 4,377 | 20% | 230 |
| 2010s | 99% | 9,500 | 26% | 410 |
| 2020s | 99% | 10,497 | 52% | 690 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Amara with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Amara&country=US" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ng_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"Copy failed. Select and copy the text.
Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Amara
Is Amara a male or female name?
Amara is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 99% and male usage in France at 58%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Amara change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Amara identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.