Girls' name · since 2000
Yamiah
Yamiah has 20 recorded births since 2000 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2015 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #46,292 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 20
- born since 2000
- 2010s
- peak decade
Yamiah is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 20 have been recorded since 2000.
Yamiah has 20 recorded births among girls since 2000, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2000 to 2015.
- #46,292 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 20 born since 2000
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Yamiah ranks #46,292 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 20 born since 2000, peaking in the 2010s.
- #46,292 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 20
- born since 2000
- 2010s
- peak decade
Yamiah's 20 recorded births place it above 35.98% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Yamiah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Yamiah's SSA record in two at 2013 and the more recent half accounts for 65% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 35%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2013, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2015 peak of 8, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Yamiah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2000–2015
- Peak year (2015)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 16 years of records
Yamiah by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (13 births, 65% of the file).
2010s was Yamiah's strongest decade.
13 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 65% of all-time use.
Yamiah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
7 births
- 2010s
2010s
13 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 13 births (65% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Yamiah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2015)
Similar record span (~15 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2000–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Yamiah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.