Amiyah
Amiyah was given to 471 girls in 2025, #620 among girls’ names; 18,643 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 18,500 Americans named Amiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amiyah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amiyah is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amiyah?
#620 among girls’ names, 2025
Amiyah fell from #305 in 2015 to #620 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.60 to 0.29 per 1,000.
1,238 babies in 2016, the peak
Amiyah peaked in 2016, when 1,238 girls were given it, #256 among girls’ names. The 471 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 471 | #620 | 0.29 |
| 2024 | 601 | #511 | 0.37 |
| 2023 | 662 | #466 | 0.41 |
| 2022 | 743 | #426 | 0.45 |
| 2021 | 864 | #358 | 0.53 |
| 2020 | 998 | #318 | 0.62 |
| 2019 | 1,110 | #297 | 0.66 |
| 2018 | 1,193 | #277 | 0.70 |
| 2017 | 1,200 | #266 | 0.70 |
| 2016 | 1,238 | #256 | 0.70 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,065 | #305 | 0.60 |
| 2014 | 1,060 | #311 | 0.59 |
| 2013 | 970 | #333 | 0.55 |
| 2012 | 829 | #376 | 0.47 |
| 2011 | 893 | #362 | 0.51 |
| 2010 | 805 | #399 | 0.45 |
| 2009 | 767 | #417 | 0.42 |
| 2008 | 660 | #480 | 0.35 |
| 2007 | 568 | #545 | 0.30 |
| 2006 | 451 | #639 | 0.24 |
| 2005 | 384 | #710 | 0.21 |
| 2004 | 307 | #816 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 262 | #909 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 159 | #1,246 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 146 | #1,311 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 135 | #1,379 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,737 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,136 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,501 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,625 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,517 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,539 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amiyah 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 Amiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amiyah, and how old are they?
18,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 18,643 Americans ever recorded as Amiyah. The median Amiyah alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 10,530 people named Amiyah (10,516 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,458 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 | 18 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,100 |
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 Amiyah born?
The states with the most babies named Amiyah are Texas, Florida and California, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 43 | #701 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 43 | #435 | 1.2× |
| California | 31 | #911 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 25 | #447 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 24 | #454 | 1.3× |
| New York | 23 | #704 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #517 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 19 | #561 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 19 | #438 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 19 | #414 | 1.3× |
Where Amiyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amiyah is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1994 it was given 1.7 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 Amiyah 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 101,042 babies since 1880, Amiyah is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 471 of their 3,040 babies (15%), again the second 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 Amiyah
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 Amiyah and names like it
- Compare Amiyah and AmayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmiyah peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Amiyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amiyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.