Amayah
#841 for girls in 2025, 323 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 402 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,653since 1998
Amayah over time
Rank among girls' names. Amayah has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #841 | 323 |
| 2024 | #700 | 402 |
| 2023 | #743 | 378 |
| 2022 | #704 | 419 |
| 2021 | #1,024 | 248 |
| 2020 | #929 | 278 |
| 2019 | #771 | 360 |
| 2018 | #816 | 332 |
| 2017 | #851 | 320 |
| 2016 | #975 | 275 |
| 2015 | #1,049 | 251 |
| 2014 | #1,171 | 210 |
| 2013 | #1,220 | 197 |
| 2012 | #1,136 | 216 |
| 2011 | #1,175 | 206 |
| 2010 | #1,296 | 182 |
| 2009 | #1,317 | 183 |
| 2008 | #1,374 | 175 |
| 2007 | #1,635 | 136 |
| 2006 | #1,761 | 118 |
| 2005 | #2,239 | 81 |
| 2004 | #1,909 | 98 |
| 2003 | #2,413 | 68 |
| 2002 | #2,605 | 59 |
| 2001 | #2,924 | 49 |
| 2000 | #2,545 | 59 |
| 1999 | #4,445 | 25 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amayah! It came in at #14,122, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1998, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Amayah is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#288 · 1 in 968
- Nevada#384 · 1 in 1,548
- Massachusetts#446 · 1 in 2,100
- Arizona#479 · 1 in 2,148
- Florida#484 · 1 in 2,388
Best ever in a state: #174 in New Mexico, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #288 | 6 | 1 in 968 |
| Nevada | #384 | 7 | 1 in 1,548 |
| Massachusetts | #446 | 12 | 1 in 2,100 |
| Arizona | #479 | 14 | 1 in 2,148 |
| Florida | #484 | 36 | 1 in 2,388 |
| California | #668 | 54 | 1 in 3,625 |
| New Jersey | #687 | 10 | 1 in 3,597 |
| Pennsylvania | #730 | 13 | 1 in 3,934 |
| Washington | #761 | 8 | 1 in 3,883 |
| Illinois | #784 | 13 | 1 in 4,273 |
| New York | #808 | 20 | 1 in 4,400 |
| Georgia | #822 | 11 | 1 in 4,284 |
| Louisiana | #829 | 5 | 1 in 3,977 |
| Ohio | #898 | 10 | 1 in 5,178 |
| Michigan | #1,012 | 7 | 1 in 5,895 |
| Texas | #1,022 | 26 | 1 in 6,149 |
| Indiana | #1,042 | 5 | 1 in 6,020 |
| North Carolina | #1,115 | 7 | 1 in 6,483 |
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See more about Amayah
- 141 spots since 2024 (#700 → #841)
- 88 spots since 2020 (#929 → #841)
- 208 spots since 2015 (#1,049 → #841)
- Biggest jump: 320 spots in 2022 (#1,024 → #704)
- Biggest drop: 158 spots in 2020 (#771 → #929)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2024 at #700 (402 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2016–2020
- Highest: 1 in 3,914 girls born in 2022 were named Amayah (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,976 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #700 in 2024, was only 1 in 4,030 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 45.1% of all girls named Amayah (2,549) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 30 | #4,445 (1999) | #9,284 |
| 2000s | 1,026 | #1,317 (2009) | #2,072 |
| 2010s | 2,549 | #771 (2019) | #1,046 |
| 2020s | 2,048 | #700 (2024) | #824 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amayah in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
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1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 5,395 of them was named Amayah, which outranked 95.4% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
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Tied with 4 names at #851; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.