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Amia vs Amie

American parents have registered 21,648 Amies since 1880, against 6,080 Amias. But in 2025 it was Amia that was commoner, 127 babies to 30.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amia against Amie, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amia Amie

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 146 years in which either name was published, Amie for 122 years and Amia for 24 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Amia Amie
Total US births 6,08021,648
Most in one year 3971,084
Babies in 2025 12730
Estimated living today 6,00019,000
Median age today 1245
Peak year 20141976
Best rank 708th girls224th girls
Rank in 2025 1,631st4,546th
First recorded 19651880
Girls / boys 6,080 / 021,608 / 40

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 Amies alive today are over 45; half the Amias are over 12. That is 33 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Amia Amie
England and Wales 2223,036
Ireland 3419

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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