Amyas
Amyas was given to 8 boys in 2025, #8,955 among boys’ names; 122 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amyas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amyas mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amyas is “a male given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “friend” (amīcus).
From Old French Amis, a given name and nickname, from Latin amīcus (“friend”). Later interpreted as a masculine form of Amy.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amyas?
#8,955 among boys’ names, 2025
Amyas rose from #10,731 in 2015 to #8,955 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 4.7 per million.
21 babies in 2019, the peak
Amyas peaked in 2019, when 21 boys were given it, #4,644 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,955 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,460 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,965 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,889 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,572 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,314 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,644 | 11.7 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,361 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,826 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,731 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #12,238 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,906 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,443 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,969 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,752 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Amyas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amyas has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amyas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amyas, and how old are they?
An estimated 121 Americans named Amyas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 5 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 42,123 babies since 1880, Amyas is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 976 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Amyas
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 Amyas and names like it
- Compare Amyas and AmosBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmyas peaked in 2019.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Amyas: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Amyas.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amyas alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.