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 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#174 · 1 in 552
- Connecticut#238 · 1 in 875
- Massachusetts#410 · 1 in 1,858
- Florida#433 · 1 in 2,055
- Colorado#455 · 1 in 1,894
Best ever in a state: #174 in New Mexico, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #174 | 9 | 1 in 552 |
| Connecticut | #238 | 13 | 1 in 875 |
| Massachusetts | #410 | 13 | 1 in 1,858 |
| Florida | #433 | 42 | 1 in 2,055 |
| Colorado | #455 | 12 | 1 in 1,894 |
| Ohio | #556 | 18 | 1 in 2,600 |
| Oregon | #559 | 6 | 1 in 2,188 |
| New York | #595 | 28 | 1 in 2,807 |
| Georgia | #599 | 17 | 1 in 2,677 |
| California | #622 | 52 | 1 in 3,186 |
| Pennsylvania | #657 | 15 | 1 in 3,089 |
| Maryland | #677 | 7 | 1 in 2,975 |
| New Jersey | #677 | 11 | 1 in 3,298 |
| Texas | #702 | 45 | 1 in 3,630 |
| Illinois | #716 | 13 | 1 in 3,457 |
| Indiana | #757 | 8 | 1 in 3,518 |
| South Carolina | #801 | 5 | 1 in 3,645 |
| Wisconsin | #831 | 5 | 1 in 4,061 |
| North Carolina | #835 | 11 | 1 in 4,202 |
| Washington | #835 | 7 | 1 in 4,155 |
| Michigan | #868 | 8 | 1 in 4,469 |
| Arizona | #1,058 | 5 | 1 in 5,609 |
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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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 4,030 of them was named Amayah, which outranked 96.1% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.