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Amaiya vs Amalia

American parents have registered 16,478 Amalias since 1880, against 1,946 Amaiyas. Amalia is still ahead, with 530 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amaiya against Amalia, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amaiya Amalia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Amalia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Amaiya had 116 and Amalia had 149.

Side by side

  Amaiya Amalia
Total US births 1,94616,478
Most in one year 116576
Babies in 2025 32530
Estimated living today 1,90013,000
Median age today 1616
Peak year 20002023
Best rank 1,542nd girls528th girls
Rank in 2025 4,352nd566th
First recorded 19951880
Girls / boys 1,946 / 016,478 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Amaiya Amalia
England and Wales 3071,602

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amaiya and Amalia.