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Amareon vs Amaya

American parents have registered 43,547 Amayas since 1880, against 101 Amareons. Amaya is still ahead, with 1,723 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amareon against Amaya, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amareon Amaya

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

Amaya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Amareon had 16 and Amaya had 1,099.

Side by side

  Amareon Amaya
Total US births 10143,547
Most in one year 252,280
Babies in 2025 51,723
Estimated living today 10043,000
Median age today 2012
Peak year 20032018
Best rank 3,528th boys129th girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th180th
First recorded 20021972
Girls / boys 0 / 10143,525 / 22

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 Amareons alive today are over 20; half the Amayas are over 12. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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