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Amyah vs Amyia

American parents have registered 3,303 Amyahs since 1880, against 910 Amyias. Amyah is still ahead, with 49 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amyah against Amyia, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amyah 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 30 years in which either name was published, Amyah for 27 years and Amyia for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Amyah Amyia
Total US births 3,303910
Most in one year 20157
Babies in 2025 49under 5
Estimated living today 3,300900
Median age today 1517
Peak year 20092006
Best rank 1,234th girls2,978th girls
Rank in 2025 3,211thunranked
First recorded 19981996
Girls / boys 3,303 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Amyias alive today are over 17; half the Amyahs are over 15. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Amyah and Amyia.