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Amillia vs Amira

American parents have registered 25,614 Amiras since 1880, against 795 Amillias. Amira is still ahead, with 2,168 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amillia Amira

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

Amira has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Amillia had 11 and Amira had 93.

Side by side

  Amillia Amira
Total US births 79525,614
Most in one year 532,187
Babies in 2025 272,168
Estimated living today 79025,000
Median age today 118
Peak year 20152024
Best rank 3,129th girls136th girls
Rank in 2025 4,878th132nd
First recorded 19801963
Girls / boys 795 / 025,609 / 5

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Amillias alive today are over 11; half the Amiras are over 8. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Amillia Amira
England and Wales 356,183

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: Amillia and Amira.