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Amyia vs Amyra

American parents have registered 2,935 Amyras since 1880, against 910 Amyias. Amyra is still ahead, with 201 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amyia against Amyra, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amyia Amyra

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 33 years in which either name was published, Amyra for 23 years and Amyia for 10 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Amyia Amyra
Total US births 9102,935
Most in one year 57267
Babies in 2025 under 5201
Estimated living today 9002,900
Median age today 176
Peak year 20062024
Best rank 2,978th girls970th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,150th
First recorded 19961992
Girls / boys 910 / 02,935 / 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 Amyras are over 6. That is 11 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: Amyia and Amyra.