Amarachukwu
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-ma-ra-CHOO-kwoo
- Origin
- Igbo
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,675 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Amarachukwu is a girls' name of Igbo origin, meaning “God's grace”. In 2025 it ranked 2,675th for girls in the UK (10 babies) and 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Amarachukwu mean?
Igbo: amara 'grace' + Chukwu 'God'
“God's grace”
The fuller form of Amara, a popular Igbo name.
Is Amarachukwu a girl's or a boy's name?
Amarachukwu is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the UK and 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Amarachukwu in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,675th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 28,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 150% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the UK were named Amarachukwu, making it the 2,675th most popular name for girls.
2025 had the most girls named Amarachukwu of any year since it first appeared, in 2005.
Half of all the girls named Amarachukwu in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales and 780th in Scotland.
Amarachukwu in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #2,675 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 8 | #3,098 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 7 | #3,433 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
How popular is Amarachukwu in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Amarachukwu, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Amarachukwu in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Amarachukwu in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
Nicknames for Amarachukwu
- Amara 467 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Amarachukwu
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kamsiyochukwu, Kosisochukwu, Araoluwa, Tiaraoluwa, Ireoluwa, Anjolaoluwa, Inioluwa, Ifeoluwa, Temiloluwa, Zinachimdi, Adesuwa, Chisimdi
More Igbo names
Amara, Munachimso, Chimamanda, Jidenna, Chizaram, Amarachi, Tobechukwu, Obi, Mazi, Adanna, Adaeze, Chidera, Chidubem, Ifechukwu, Chisom, Tobenna
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Amarachukwu: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amarachukwu, updated 20 October 2026.