Meaning not yet researched.
Ameya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 53 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,780 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,780 in 2015; #3,070 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Ameya in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,070 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #2,780.
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Ameya: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 53 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,780 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 63 (2015).
In 2025, 53 US girls were named Ameya, making it the 3,070th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,143 places from #4,213 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 34 girls named Ameya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,780, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 63. For comparison, it was #2,780 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Ameya, making it the 10,775th most common boys’ name of the year, up 256 places from #11,031 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 6 boys named Ameya in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,921, reached in 2002. The most boys given the name in a single year was 17, in 2007. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ameya in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 7 babies. In all, 1,170 US babies have been given the name, 83% of them girls and 17% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 503 babies named Ameya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 463 US girls were named Ameya; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,326 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Amy (703,484 babies since 1880), Amiyah (18,643 babies since 1880), Amya (10,312 babies since 1880) and Amiya (8,672 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Ameya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,070 | 6 | #10,775 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,213 | 6 | #11,031 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,120 | — | — |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,835 | — | — |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,216 | — | — |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,021 | — | — |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,617 | — | — |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,504 | — | — |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,904 | 8 | #8,889 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,970 | — | — |
| 2015 | 63 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,138 | 5 | #12,211 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,410 | — | — |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,855 | 5 | #12,369 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,474 | 12 | #6,599 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,405 | 8 | #8,844 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,236 | 9 | #8,337 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,280 | 15 | #5,779 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,220 | 17 | #5,219 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,930 | 16 | #5,313 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,549 | 15 | #5,297 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,510 | 13 | #5,829 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,074 | 9 | #7,267 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,182 | 15 | #4,921 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,403 | 8 | #7,558 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,208 | 6 | #9,149 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,530 | 6 | #8,755 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,305 | 6 | #8,517 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #7,812 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,276 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,434 |
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).