Amaziah — #3497 US boys' name
631 babies named Amaziah in U.S. Social Security records since 2003, with the highest year being 2019. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 75% of names given to boys today.
66% of everyone ever named Amaziah was born in this single decade.
72 babies were named Amaziah in 2019 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Amaziah
The Social Security Administration has registered 631 babies named Amaziah between 2003 and 2024, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Amaziah currently holds the #3497 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 72 babies received it in a single year. Amaziah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 124 additional births since 2001.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Amaziah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 416 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Amaziah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 69 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Amaziah in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Amaziah 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 631 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.
Amaziah at a glance
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Current rank
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Amaziah popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2003
- Peak year (2019)
- 72
- Annual births at peak — across 22 years of records
Currently ranks #3497 among boys.
631 total births across 22 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2019 with 72 births in a single year.
Amaziah popularity over time — girls
124 total births recorded since 2001 (Amaziah as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Amaziah accounts for 16% of total recorded use across both genders.
Amaziah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 416 births that decade — 66% of Amaziah's all-time total
Amaziah decade highlights
- Peak decade 416 births
- Runner-up 171 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Amaziah's strongest decade
416 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 66% of all-time use.
Amaziah by state
Where Amaziah concentrates geographically — total births since 2003
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 69 | 10.9% |
| #2 | Texas | | 68 | 10.8% |
| #3 | Florida | | 13 | 2.1% |
| #4 | Washington | | 11 | 1.7% |
| #5 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 0.8% |
69 of 631 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 10.9% of nationwide
- Texas 10.8% of nationwide
- Florida 2.1% of nationwide
- Washington 1.7% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 10.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2003–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.