Amayah — #700 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Amayah

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,326 babies named Amayah between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Amayah currently holds the #700 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 419 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Amayah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,548 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Amayah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 750 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Amayah in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Amayah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,326 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.