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Amyiah vs Amyla

American parents have registered 1,036 Amyiahs since 1880, against 667 Amylas. But in 2025 it was Amyla that was commoner, 45 babies to 15.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amyiah Amyla

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 27 years in which either name was published, Amyiah for 20 years and Amyla for 7 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Amyiah Amyla
Total US births 1,036667
Most in one year 7263
Babies in 2025 1545
Estimated living today 1,000660
Median age today 136
Peak year 20152021
Best rank 2,501st girls2,715th girls
Rank in 2025 7,133rd3,389th
First recorded 19992001
Girls / boys 1,036 / 0667 / 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 Amyiahs alive today are over 13; half the Amylas are over 6. That is 7 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: Amyiah and Amyla.