Amia
Amia was given to 127 girls in 2025, #1,631 among girls’ names; 6,080 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,020 Americans named Amia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amia?
#1,631 among girls’ names, 2025
Amia fell from #786 in 2015 to #1,631 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.20 to 0.08 per 1,000.
397 babies in 2014, the peak
Amia peaked in 2014, when 397 girls were given it, #708 among girls’ names. The 127 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 127 | #1,631 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 127 | #1,630 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 185 | #1,248 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 204 | #1,177 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 190 | #1,238 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 222 | #1,099 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 222 | #1,103 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 275 | #960 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 320 | #852 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 357 | #796 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 358 | #786 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 397 | #708 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 256 | #981 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 209 | #1,176 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 162 | #1,410 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 176 | #1,336 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 184 | #1,315 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 232 | #1,114 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 188 | #1,298 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 205 | #1,184 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 176 | #1,275 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 158 | #1,344 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 164 | #1,271 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 138 | #1,393 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 140 | #1,359 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,630 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,803 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,279 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 66 | #2,114 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,359 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,878 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,013 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,680 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,726 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,652 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,522 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,062 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,717 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,353 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,193 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,087 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,482 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,892 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,353 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,740 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,152 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,335 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,582 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,221 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,588 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,320 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,633 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #4,997 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,298 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amia, and how old are they?
6,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,080 Americans ever recorded as Amia. The median Amia alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 4,184 people named Amia (4,153 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,037 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 X | 1965-1980 | 92 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 278 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,220 |
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 Amia born?
The states with the most babies named Amia are California, Texas and Florida, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,276 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,719 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,175 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,038 | 0.8× |
| New York | 6 | #1,847 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,423 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,545 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,454 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,141 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,181 | 0.4× |
Where Amia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amia is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1965 it was given 1.4 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 Amia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 820,486 babies since 1880, Amia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 127 of their 3,796 babies (3.3%), 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 Amia
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 Amia and names like it
- Compare Amia and AmyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmia peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amia since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Amia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.