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Amye vs Amyiah

American parents have registered 1,036 Amyiahs since 1880, against 651 Amyes. Amyiah is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amye Amyiah

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 82 years in which either name was published, Amye for 55 years and Amyiah for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Amye Amyiah
Total US births 6511,036
Most in one year 2872
Babies in 2025 under 515
Estimated living today 5301,000
Median age today 4813
Peak year 19732015
Best rank 2,565th girls2,501st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked7,133rd
First recorded 19021999
Girls / boys 651 / 01,036 / 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 Amyes alive today are over 48; half the Amyiahs are over 13. That is 35 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: Amye and Amyiah.