Meaning not yet researched.
Amayah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 323 in 2025. Its best rank was #700 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #700 in 2024; #841 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Amayah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#841 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #700.
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Amayah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 323 girls in 2025. Peak: #700 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 419 (2022).
In 2025, 323 US girls were named Amayah, making it the 841st most common girls’ name of the year, down 141 places from #700 in 2024. That is 79 fewer than the 402 girls named Amayah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #700, reached in 2024. The most girls given the name in a single year was 419, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,049 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amayah in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 5 babies. In all, 5,653 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,549 babies named Amayah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,335 US girls were named Amayah; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 419. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,976 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amayah ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #417 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amaya (43,547 babies since 1880), Amaia (5,499 babies since 1880) and Amaiya (1,946 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Amayah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 13 | #417 | #626 |
| Florida | 37 | #489 | #538 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #522 | — |
| Minnesota | 8 | #600 | — |
| Arizona | 10 | #635 | #708 |
| New York | 25 | #658 | #663 |
| Washington | 9 | #683 | — |
| New Jersey | 10 | #722 | #718 |
| California | 41 | #756 | #999 |
| Colorado | 6 | #800 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #800 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #805 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #819 | #1,126 |
| Indiana | 7 | #825 | — |
| Texas | 35 | #842 | #1,543 |
| Missouri | 5 | #939 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #968 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,023 | #992 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,190 | #962 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,287 | #993 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,544 | #895 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 323 | #841 | — | — |
| 2024 | 402 | #700 | — | — |
| 2023 | 378 | #743 | — | — |
| 2022 | 419 | #704 | — | — |
| 2021 | 248 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 2020 | 278 | #929 | — | — |
| 2019 | 360 | #771 | — | — |
| 2018 | 332 | #816 | — | — |
| 2017 | 320 | #851 | — | — |
| 2016 | 275 | #975 | — | — |
| 2015 | 251 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 2014 | 210 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 2013 | 197 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 2012 | 216 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 2011 | 206 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 2010 | 182 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 2009 | 183 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 2008 | 175 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 2007 | 136 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 2006 | 118 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,607 | — | — |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,925 | — | — |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,545 | — | — |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,455 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,255 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).