Amy vs Amyiah
American parents have registered 703,484 Amys since 1880, against 1,036 Amyiahs. Amy is still ahead, with 1,200 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Amy Amyiah
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
Amy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2015, when Amy had 2,043 and Amyiah had 72.
Side by side
| Amy | Amyiah | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 703,484 | 1,036 |
| Most in one year | 32,343 | 72 |
| Babies in 2025 | 1,200 | 15 |
| Estimated living today | 641,000 | 1,000 |
| Median age today | 48 | 13 |
| Peak year | 1975 | 2015 |
| Best rank | 2nd girls | 2,501st girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 257th | 7,133rd |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1999 |
| Girls / boys | 701,631 / 1,853 | 1,036 / 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 Amys alive today are over 48; half the Amyiahs are over 13. That is 35 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Amy Wisconsin (1.5×), Vermont (1.5×), Minnesota (1.4×)
- Amyiah Michigan (4.6×), Florida (3.3×), Texas (3.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amy and Amyiah.