Meaning not yet researched.
Amiah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 144 in 2025. Its best rank was #974 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #974 in 2008; #1,484 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Amiah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,484 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #974.
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Amiah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 144 girls in 2025. Peak: #974 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 275 (2008).
In 2025, 144 US girls were named Amiah, making it the 1,484th most common girls’ name of the year, up 155 places from #1,639 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 126 girls named Amiah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #974, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 275. For comparison, it was #1,205 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amiah in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 6 babies. In all, 4,832 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,097 babies named Amiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,643 US girls were named Amiah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 217. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,162 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amiah ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #585 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amie (21,648 babies since 1880), Amiyah (18,643 babies since 1880), Amya (10,312 babies since 1880) and Amiya (8,672 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ahmyiah are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ahmyiah (12).
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 Amiah 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 5 | #585 | — |
| Florida | 20 | #797 | #990 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,225 | #906 |
| California | 16 | #1,415 | #1,143 |
| New York | 8 | #1,535 | #1,387 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,802 | #1,470 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 2024 | 126 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 2022 | 201 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 2021 | 165 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 2019 | 168 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 2018 | 168 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 2017 | 205 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 2016 | 217 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 2015 | 207 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 2014 | 206 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 2013 | 203 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 2012 | 242 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 2011 | 227 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 2010 | 254 | #991 | — | — |
| 2009 | 265 | #998 | — | — |
| 2008 | 275 | #974 | — | — |
| 2007 | 200 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 2006 | 195 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 2005 | 177 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 2004 | 165 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 2003 | 139 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 2002 | 104 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 2000 | 119 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 1999 | 54 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,139 | — | — |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,641 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,897 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,623 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,847 | — | — |
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).