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Amyah vs Amyra

American parents have registered 3,303 Amyahs since 1880, against 2,935 Amyras. But in 2025 it was Amyra that was commoner, 201 babies to 49.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amyah 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 32 years in which either name was published, Amyah for 17 years and Amyra for 15 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Amyah Amyra
Total US births 3,3032,935
Most in one year 201267
Babies in 2025 49201
Estimated living today 3,3002,900
Median age today 156
Peak year 20092024
Best rank 1,234th girls970th girls
Rank in 2025 3,211th1,150th
First recorded 19981992
Girls / boys 3,303 / 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 Amyahs alive today are over 15; half the Amyras are over 6. That is 9 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 Amyah Amyra
England and Wales 68627

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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Related comparisons

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