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Amyia vs Amyiah

American parents have registered 1,036 Amyiahs since 1880, against 910 Amyias. Amyiah is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amyia 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 30 years in which either name was published, Amyiah for 17 years and Amyia for 13 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Amyia Amyiah
Total US births 9101,036
Most in one year 5772
Babies in 2025 under 515
Estimated living today 9001,000
Median age today 1713
Peak year 20062015
Best rank 2,978th girls2,501st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked7,133rd
First recorded 19961999
Girls / boys 910 / 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 Amyias alive today are over 17; half the Amyiahs are over 13. That is 4 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: Amyia and Amyiah.