Ameya
Ameya is given to both girls and boys: 53 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,070 among girls’ names and #10,771 among boys’, #5,023 among all names counting both); 1,170 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Ameya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ameya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ameya?
#3,070 among girls’ names, 2025
Ameya fell from #2,780 in 2015 to #3,070 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.3 to 33.0 per million.
65 babies in 2017, the peak
Ameya peaked in 2017, when 65 babies were given it (57 girls, #2,904 among girls’ names). The 59 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 91% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,070 | 6 | #10,771 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,212 | 6 | #11,026 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,118 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,833 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,216 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,021 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,616 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,503 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,904 | 8 | #8,884 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,970 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,780 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,136 | 5 | #12,205 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,408 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,854 | 5 | #12,362 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,473 | 12 | #6,593 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,404 | 8 | #8,838 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,235 | 9 | #8,332 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,279 | 15 | #5,774 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,219 | 17 | #5,216 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,929 | 16 | #5,309 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,544 | 15 | #5,292 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,505 | 13 | #5,823 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,069 | 9 | #7,260 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,176 | 15 | #4,915 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,396 | 8 | #7,551 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,200 | 6 | #9,141 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,523 | 6 | #8,748 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,298 | 6 | #8,509 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 6 | #7,806 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #8,269 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 7 | #6,427 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ameya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,170 Americans recorded as Ameya, 83% are girls and 17% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ameya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ameya, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,170 Americans ever recorded as Ameya. The median Ameya alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,319 people named Ameya (701 women and girls, 618 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 900 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 17 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 497 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 645 |
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 Ameya born?
The states with the most babies named Ameya are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,044 | 0.6× |
| California | 7 | #2,512 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,243 | 0.1× |
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 Ameya 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 Ameya?
Ameya is a less common spelling of Amaya: SSA has recorded 1,170 Ameya and 43,547 Amaya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 797,561 babies since 1880, Ameya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 4,106 babies (1.4%), 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 Ameya
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 Ameya and names like it
- Compare Ameya and AmayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmeya peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ameya since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Ameya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ameya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.