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Amyiah vs Amyra

American parents have registered 2,935 Amyras since 1880, against 1,036 Amyiahs. Amyra is still ahead, with 201 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amyiah 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, Amyra for 29 years and Amyiah for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Amyiah Amyra
Total US births 1,0362,935
Most in one year 72267
Babies in 2025 15201
Estimated living today 1,0002,900
Median age today 136
Peak year 20152024
Best rank 2,501st girls970th girls
Rank in 2025 7,133rd1,150th
First recorded 19991992
Girls / boys 1,036 / 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 Amyiahs alive today are over 13; half the Amyras are over 6. That is 7 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: Amyiah and Amyra.