Amaryllis is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Amaryllis is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Amaryllis. In the SmartGenius ranking, Amaryllis is #2,557 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Amaryllis.
If your name is Amaryllis your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Amaryllis never ranked higher than position 1,058 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Amaryllis. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1927 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Amaryllis because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Amaryllis was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Amaryllis still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 69 times in the entire U.S. So, a Amaryllis from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Amaryllis are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Amaryllis is registered in 10 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or New Jersey. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Amaryllis live in Florida, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 136,395 would turn around if you called the name Amaryllis across Florida.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With nine letters, the name Amaryllis is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Amaryllis and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Amaryllis, you can simply say:
Apple
Mouse
Apple
Rocket
Yoyo
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Amaryllis
Amaryllis
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
M
A
R
Y
L
L
I
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
M
A
R
Y
L
L
I
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Amaryllis sounds like this:
