Ameria
Ameria was given to 20 girls in 2025, #5,928 among girls’ names; 769 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ameria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ameria?
#5,928 among girls’ names, 2025
Ameria fell from #4,594 in 2015 to #5,928 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 12.4 per million.
61 babies in 2008, the peak
Ameria peaked in 2008, when 61 girls were given it, #2,891 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,928 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,674 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,181 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,177 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,756 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,326 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,171 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,814 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,583 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,294 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,594 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,009 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,007 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,128 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,919 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,313 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,271 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,891 | 32.3 |
| 2007 | 39 | #3,988 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,928 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,705 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,070 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,870 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,318 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,075 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,884 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,621 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,635 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,444 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ameria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ameria has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ameria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ameria, and how old are they?
An estimated 763 Americans named Ameria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 650 people named Ameria (642 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 633 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 78,219 babies since 1880, Ameria is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 6,722 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Ameria
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 Ameria and names like it
- Compare Ameria and AmaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAmeria peaked in 2008.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ameria since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Ameria.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ameria alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.