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Amilia vs Amirah

American parents have registered 10,863 Amirahs since 1880, against 3,038 Amilias. Amirah is still ahead, with 603 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amilia against Amirah, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amilia Amirah

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

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Amirah for 50 years and Amilia for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Amilia Amirah
Total US births 3,03810,863
Most in one year 200678
Babies in 2025 158603
Estimated living today 3,00011,000
Median age today 910
Peak year 20232024
Best rank 1,199th girls463rd girls
Rank in 2025 1,382nd490th
First recorded 19051976
Girls / boys 3,038 / 010,863 / 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 Amilia Amirah
England and Wales 3263,374
France 8095
Belgium 12018
Scotland 388

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: Amilia and Amirah.