Meaning not yet researched.
Amya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 92 in 2025. Its best rank was #423 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #423 in 2004; #2,051 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Amya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,051 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #423.
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Amya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 92 girls in 2025. Peak: #423 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 717 (2004).
In 2025, 92 US girls were named Amya, making it the 2,051st most common girls’ name of the year, down 85 places from #1,966 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 100 girls named Amya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #423, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 717. For comparison, it was #897 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amya in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 6 babies. In all, 10,312 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,985 babies named Amya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,645 US girls were named Amya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 293. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,470 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amya ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #806 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amy (703,484 babies since 1880), Amie (21,648 babies since 1880), Amiyah (18,643 babies since 1880) and Amiya (8,672 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ameeya and Ameyia 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: Ameeya (15), Ameyia (6).
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 Amya 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 11 | #806 | #540 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,245 | #823 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,456 | #822 |
| New York | 5 | #2,107 | #1,145 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,180 | #691 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,660 | #1,036 |
| California | 6 | #2,789 | #2,169 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 2023 | 120 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 2022 | 124 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 2021 | 120 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 2019 | 195 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 2018 | 218 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 2017 | 225 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 2016 | 293 | #935 | — | — |
| 2015 | 307 | #897 | — | — |
| 2014 | 335 | #826 | — | — |
| 2013 | 441 | #638 | — | — |
| 2012 | 432 | #658 | — | — |
| 2011 | 446 | #639 | — | — |
| 2010 | 495 | #594 | — | — |
| 2009 | 583 | #521 | — | — |
| 2008 | 641 | #493 | — | — |
| 2007 | 671 | #483 | — | — |
| 2006 | 668 | #473 | — | — |
| 2005 | 712 | #433 | — | — |
| 2004 | 717 | #423 | — | — |
| 2003 | 706 | #425 | — | — |
| 2002 | 403 | #632 | — | — |
| 2001 | 426 | #593 | — | — |
| 2000 | 458 | #568 | — | — |
| 1999 | 168 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,017 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,370 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,859 | — | — |
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).