Girls' name · since 2017
Amaliyah
38 babies named Amaliyah in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #38,055 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,551 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 38
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Amaliyah currently ranks #14551 among girls' names in America, with 38 babies recorded since 2017.
Social Security Administration records show Amaliyah recorded 38 times among girls since 2017, holding rank #14551 nationally today, ahead of 16% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #38,055 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,551 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 38 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Amaliyah ranks #38,055 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,551 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 38 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #38,055 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,551 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 38
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Amaliyah's 38 recorded births place it above 46.97% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Amaliyah compares
38 13th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Amaliyah's all-time total is 90% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Amaliyah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 38 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Amaliyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Amaliyah splits its recorded history at 2021: 63% of all births land in the more recent half, 37% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2024 (6 births) -- compare that against the 2021 peak of 12 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Amaliyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Amaliyah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (31 births, 82% of the file).
2020s was Amaliyah's strongest decade.
31 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 82% of all-time use.
Amaliyah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 7
2010s
7 births
- 2020s
2020s
31 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 31 births (82% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Amaliyah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.