Amay
Amay was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,660 among boys’ names; 444 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amay?
#3,660 among boys’ names, 2025
Amay rose from #4,183 in 2015 to #3,660 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.5 to 17.6 per million.
50 babies in 2019, the peak
Amay peaked in 2019, when 50 boys were given it, #2,586 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,660 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,106 | 22.6 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,222 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,091 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,300 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,202 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 50 | #2,586 | 27.9 |
| 2018 | 44 | #2,748 | 24.2 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,251 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,203 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,183 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,257 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 14 | #5,934 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,893 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,869 | 3.2 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,044 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,617 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,432 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,959 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,487 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Amay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amay has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amay, and how old are they?
An estimated 440 Americans named Amay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 413 people named Amay (100 women and girls, 313 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 261 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amay
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
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