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Ameera vs Ameya

American parents have registered 3,447 Ameeras since 1880, against 1,170 Ameyas. Ameera is still ahead, with 161 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ameera against Ameya, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ameera Ameya

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

Ameera 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 2014, when Ameera had 104 and Ameya had 57.

Side by side

  Ameera Ameya
Total US births 3,4471,170
Most in one year 17865
Babies in 2025 16159
Estimated living today 3,4001,200
Median age today 1011
Peak year 20242015
Best rank 1,296th girls2,773rd girls
Rank in 2025 1,367th3,067th
First recorded 19721990
Girls / boys 3,447 / 0967 / 203

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 Ameera Ameya
England and Wales 2,122274
Ireland 3818
France 3510

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: Ameera and Ameya.