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Amya vs Amyia

American parents have registered 10,312 Amyas since 1880, against 910 Amyias. Amya is still ahead, with 92 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amya Amyia

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 31 years in which either name was published, Amya for 30 years and Amyia for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Amya Amyia
Total US births 10,312910
Most in one year 71757
Babies in 2025 92under 5
Estimated living today 10,000900
Median age today 1717
Peak year 20042006
Best rank 423rd girls2,978th girls
Rank in 2025 2,051stunranked
First recorded 19951996
Girls / boys 10,312 / 0910 / 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.

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