Ameya
#3,067 for girls in 2025, 53 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 82.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 63 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 967since 1998
Ameya over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,067 | 53 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #4,207 | 34 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #4,114 | 35 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,827 | 39 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,215 | 50 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,015 | 53 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,611 | 42 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,497 | 44 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,903 | 57 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,773 | 63 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,137 | 52 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,854 | 40 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #5,226 | 27 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #4,268 | 36 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #4,213 | 36 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #3,919 | 38 | #5,303 | 16 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #5,278 | 15 |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #8,479 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ameya! It came in at #9,260, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1998–2002, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
Where Ameya is popular in 1998
No state had 5 or more girls named Ameya in 1998, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ameya
- 1,140 spots since 2024 (#4,207 → #3,067)
- 52 spots since 2020 (#3,015 → #3,067)
- 294 spots since 2015 (#2,773 → #3,067)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2015 at #2,773 (63 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,335 girls born in 2015 were named Ameya (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,326 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 48.1% of all girls named Ameya (465) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2002, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 18 | #9,260 (1998) | #9,370 |
| 2000s | 220 | #3,919 (2006) | #6,632 |
| 2010s | 465 | #2,773 (2015) | #3,501 |
| 2020s | 264 | #3,015 (2020) | #3,574 |
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.
Ameya in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 196,328 of them was named Ameya, which outranked 44.2% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,584Zohra10
- #8,584Zola10
- #8,584Zori10
- #9,260Ameya9
- #9,260Aalliyah9
- #9,260Aastha9
- #9,260Abbe9
- #10,122Aaniyah8
- #10,122Aasiyah8
- #10,122Abbegale8
Tied with 861 names at #9,260; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 318,561 of them was named Ameya, which outranked 25.0% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,560Ziyad7
- #7,560Zong7
- #7,560Zoran7
- #8,479Ameya6
- #8,479Abby6
- #8,479Abd6
- #8,479Abdi6
- #9,631Aadil5
- #9,631Aaliyah5
- #9,631Aaronmichael5
Tied with 1,151 names at #8,479; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.