Amyah
Amyah was given to 49 girls in 2025, #3,212 among girls’ names; 3,303 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,280 Americans named Amyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amyah?
#3,212 among girls’ names, 2025
Amyah fell from #1,657 in 2015 to #3,212 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 72.3 to 30.5 per million.
201 babies in 2009, the peak
Amyah peaked in 2009, when 201 girls were given it, #1,234 among girls’ names. The 49 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,212 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,509 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,590 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 77 | #2,390 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 87 | #2,154 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 88 | #2,079 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,252 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,800 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 119 | #1,762 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,828 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 129 | #1,657 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 134 | #1,603 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 161 | #1,413 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 161 | #1,416 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 176 | #1,324 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 200 | #1,206 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 201 | #1,234 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 195 | #1,274 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 171 | #1,396 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 164 | #1,387 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 171 | #1,301 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 160 | #1,329 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 130 | #1,499 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 83 | #2,062 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,124 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 81 | #2,031 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,574 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,301 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amyah, and how old are they?
3,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,303 Americans ever recorded as Amyah. The median Amyah alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,201 people named Amyah (2,197 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,864 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 1,990 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,280 |
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 Amyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,790 | 0.4× |
| New York | 5 | #2,108 | 0.7× |
Where Amyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amyah is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1998 it was given 1.5 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 Amyah 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 Amyah?
Amyah is a less common spelling of Amiyah: SSA has recorded 3,303 Amyah and 18,643 Amiyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 799,694 babies since 1880, Amyah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 4,096 babies (1.2%), 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 Amyah
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 Amyah and names like it
- Compare Amyah and AmiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAmyah peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Amyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Amyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.