Amiah
Amiah was given to 144 girls in 2025, #1,484 among girls’ names; 4,832 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,790 Americans named Amiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amiah?
#1,484 among girls’ names, 2025
Amiah fell from #1,205 in 2015 to #1,484 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.09 per 1,000.
275 babies in 2008, the peak
Amiah peaked in 2008, when 275 girls were given it, #974 among girls’ names. The 144 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | #1,484 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 126 | #1,639 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,826 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 201 | #1,200 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 165 | #1,343 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,524 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 168 | #1,349 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 168 | #1,339 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 205 | #1,190 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 217 | #1,159 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 207 | #1,205 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 206 | #1,186 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 203 | #1,185 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 242 | #1,041 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 227 | #1,084 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 254 | #991 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 265 | #998 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 275 | #974 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 200 | #1,239 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 195 | #1,234 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 177 | #1,266 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 165 | #1,293 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 139 | #1,422 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 104 | #1,742 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,762 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 119 | #1,522 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 54 | #2,609 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,135 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,637 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,617 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,841 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amiah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amiah, and how old are they?
4,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,832 Americans ever recorded as Amiah. The median Amiah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 3,174 people named Amiah (3,154 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,953 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 19 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,250 |
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 Amiah born?
The states with the most babies named Amiah are Florida, California and Texas, with 73% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 20 | #797 | 1.1× |
| California | 16 | #1,415 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,802 | 0.7× |
| New York | 8 | #1,535 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,225 | 1.3× |
| Kansas | 5 | #585 | 0.5× |
Where Amiah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amiah is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1993 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 Amiah 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 83,940 babies since 1880, Amiah is the eighth most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 144 of their 1,340 babies (11%), the third 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 Amiah
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 Amiah and names like it
- Compare Amiah and AmieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAmiah peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Amiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Amiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.