Amayah
Amayah was given to 323 girls in 2025, #841 among girls’ names; 5,653 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,610 Americans named Amayah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amayah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amayah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amayah is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amayah?
#841 among girls’ names, 2025
Amayah rose from #1,049 in 2015 to #841 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.14 to 0.20 per 1,000.
419 babies in 2022, the peak
Amayah peaked in 2022, when 419 girls were given it, #704 among girls’ names. The 323 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 323 | #841 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 402 | #700 | 0.25 |
| 2023 | 378 | #743 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 419 | #704 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 248 | #1,024 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 278 | #929 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 360 | #771 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 332 | #816 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 320 | #851 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 275 | #975 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 251 | #1,049 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 210 | #1,171 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 197 | #1,220 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 216 | #1,137 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 206 | #1,175 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 182 | #1,296 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 183 | #1,317 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 175 | #1,376 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 136 | #1,635 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 118 | #1,762 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,238 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,909 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,411 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,604 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,921 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,541 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,450 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,248 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amayah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amayah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amayah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amayah, and how old are they?
5,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,653 Americans ever recorded as Amayah. The median Amayah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 2,914 people named Amayah (2,902 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,650 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,970 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Amayah born?
The states with the most babies named Amayah are California, Florida and Texas, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 41 | #756 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 37 | #489 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 35 | #842 | 0.9× |
| New York | 25 | #658 | 1.2× |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #417 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #819 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 11 | #805 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 10 | #635 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #722 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 9 | #683 | 0.7× |
Where Amayah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amayah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1998 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Amayah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Amayah?
Amayah is a less common spelling of Amaya: SSA has recorded 5,653 Amayah and 43,547 Amaya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 100,461 babies since 1880, Amayah is the fifth most given (5.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 323 of their 3,460 babies (9.3%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amayah
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.
More about Amayah and names like it
- Compare Amayah and AmayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmayah peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amayah since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Amayah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amayah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.