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Amyia vs Amyrah

American parents have registered 983 Amyrahs since 1880, against 910 Amyias. Amyrah is still ahead, with 70 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amyia against Amyrah, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amyia Amyrah

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, Amyia for 17 years and Amyrah for 13 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Amyia Amyrah
Total US births 910983
Most in one year 5770
Babies in 2025 under 570
Estimated living today 900980
Median age today 177
Peak year 20062025
Best rank 2,978th girls2,514th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,514th
First recorded 19961998
Girls / boys 910 / 0983 / 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 Amyrahs are over 7. That is 10 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 Amyrah.