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Amiriyon vs Amiyah

American parents have registered 18,643 Amiyahs since 1880, against 41 Amiriyons. Amiyah is still ahead, with 471 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amiriyon 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

Amiyah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1994 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Amiriyon had 18 and Amiyah had 743.

Side by side

  Amiriyon Amiyah
Total US births 4118,643
Most in one year 181,238
Babies in 2025 under 5471
Estimated living today 4019,000
Median age today 210
Peak year 20222016
Best rank 5,215th boys256th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked620th
First recorded 20221994
Girls / boys 0 / 4118,643 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Amiyahs alive today are over 10; half the Amiriyons are over 2. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amiriyon and Amiyah.