Amiya
Amiya was given to 111 girls in 2025, #1,809 among girls’ names; 8,672 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,600 Americans named Amiya 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 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amiya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amiya is “a female given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “My mother is Jah” (literally).
Variant of Amiyah, from Hebrew אמאיה (āmíjah, literally “My mother is Jah”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amiya?
#1,809 among girls’ names, 2025
Amiya fell from #703 in 2015 to #1,809 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.23 to 0.07 per 1,000.
484 babies in 2009, the peak
Amiya peaked in 2009, when 484 girls were given it, #624 among girls’ names. The 111 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 111 | #1,809 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 158 | #1,414 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 210 | #1,154 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 194 | #1,239 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 209 | #1,170 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 243 | #1,032 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 317 | #848 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 340 | #801 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 382 | #741 | 0.22 |
| 2016 | 389 | #731 | 0.22 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 405 | #703 | 0.23 |
| 2014 | 397 | #709 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 443 | #635 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 440 | #644 | 0.25 |
| 2011 | 424 | #668 | 0.24 |
| 2010 | 441 | #662 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 484 | #624 | 0.26 |
| 2008 | 467 | #655 | 0.25 |
| 2007 | 389 | #749 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 374 | #742 | 0.20 |
| 2005 | 345 | #769 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 360 | #733 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 303 | #815 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 220 | #999 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 193 | #1,096 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 229 | #935 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,854 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,225 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,009 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,295 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,149 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,630 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,525 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,465 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amiya, and how old are they?
8,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,672 Americans ever recorded as Amiya. The median Amiya alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 5,943 people named Amiya (5,861 women and girls, 82 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,553 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 54 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,770 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,770 |
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 Amiya born?
The states with the most babies named Amiya are Ohio, Florida and California, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 12 | #747 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,333 | 1.1× |
| California | 9 | #2,106 | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 7 | #660 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,942 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,372 | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,072 | 1.4× |
Where Amiya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amiya is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1990 it was given 1.9 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 Amiya 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, Amiya is the sixth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 111 of their 3,796 babies (2.9%), the fifth 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 Amiya
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 Amiya and names like it
- Compare Amiya and AmyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAmiya peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Amiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Amiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.