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Amilia vs Amiyah

American parents have registered 18,643 Amiyahs since 1880, against 3,038 Amilias. Amiyah is still ahead, with 471 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amilia against Amiyah, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amilia Amiyah

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 56 years in which either name was published, Amilia for 29 years and Amiyah for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Amilia Amiyah
Total US births 3,03818,643
Most in one year 2001,238
Babies in 2025 158471
Estimated living today 3,00019,000
Median age today 910
Peak year 20232016
Best rank 1,199th girls256th girls
Rank in 2025 1,382nd620th
First recorded 19051994
Girls / boys 3,038 / 018,643 / 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 Amiyah
England and Wales 3261,182
Scotland 319

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 Amiyah.