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Amarie vs Amaya

American parents have registered 43,547 Amayas since 1880, against 2,968 Amaries. Amaya is still ahead, with 1,723 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amarie against Amaya, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amarie Amaya

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

Amaya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Amarie had 14 and Amaya had 92.

Side by side

  Amarie Amaya
Total US births 2,96843,547
Most in one year 1682,280
Babies in 2025 681,723
Estimated living today 2,90043,000
Median age today 1312
Peak year 20062018
Best rank 1,539th girls129th girls
Rank in 2025 2,859th180th
First recorded 19951972
Girls / boys 2,474 / 49443,525 / 22

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 Amarie Amaya
England and Wales 356,011

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: Amarie and Amaya.