Amia
#1,631 for girls in 2025, 127 births
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 397 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,080since 1965
Amia over time
Rank among girls' names. Amia 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 | #1,631 | 127 |
| 2024 | #1,630 | 127 |
| 2023 | #1,248 | 185 |
| 2022 | #1,177 | 204 |
| 2021 | #1,236 | 190 |
| 2020 | #1,099 | 222 |
| 2019 | #1,103 | 222 |
| 2018 | #960 | 275 |
| 2017 | #851 | 320 |
| 2016 | #796 | 357 |
| 2015 | #786 | 358 |
| 2014 | #708 | 397 |
| 2013 | #981 | 256 |
| 2012 | #1,174 | 209 |
| 2011 | #1,409 | 162 |
| 2010 | #1,336 | 176 |
| 2009 | #1,314 | 184 |
| 2008 | #1,113 | 232 |
| 2007 | #1,298 | 188 |
| 2006 | #1,184 | 205 |
| 2005 | #1,273 | 176 |
| 2004 | #1,344 | 158 |
| 2003 | #1,272 | 164 |
| 2002 | #1,394 | 138 |
| 2001 | #1,360 | 140 |
| 2000 | #1,632 | 108 |
| 1999 | #1,804 | 88 |
| 1998 | #2,279 | 62 |
| 1997 | #2,116 | 66 |
| 1996 | #3,361 | 34 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 |
| 1994 | #4,016 | 26 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 |
| 1991 | #4,650 | 21 |
| 1990 | #4,523 | 21 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 |
| 1981 | #3,739 | 21 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 |
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| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
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| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
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| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amia! It came in at #5,289, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Amia is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#473 · 1 in 1,755
- Illinois#657 · 1 in 3,224
- Florida#726 · 1 in 3,845
- Georgia#743 · 1 in 3,567
- Virginia#785 · 1 in 3,921
Best ever in a state: #192 in Alaska, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #473 | 6 | 1 in 1,755 |
| Illinois | #657 | 16 | 1 in 3,224 |
| Florida | #726 | 22 | 1 in 3,845 |
| Georgia | #743 | 13 | 1 in 3,567 |
| Virginia | #785 | 9 | 1 in 3,921 |
| Alabama | #810 | 5 | 1 in 3,778 |
| Louisiana | #840 | 5 | 1 in 3,802 |
| Massachusetts | #840 | 5 | 1 in 4,943 |
| Pennsylvania | #876 | 10 | 1 in 4,989 |
| Arizona | #914 | 6 | 1 in 4,770 |
| Washington | #936 | 6 | 1 in 4,963 |
| Tennessee | #965 | 6 | 1 in 5,101 |
| Ohio | #1,036 | 8 | 1 in 6,320 |
| Michigan | #1,236 | 5 | 1 in 7,976 |
| New York | #1,243 | 11 | 1 in 7,718 |
| California | #1,298 | 20 | 1 in 9,228 |
| Texas | #1,569 | 14 | 1 in 11,325 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Amia
- 1 spot since 2024 (#1,630 → #1,631)
- 532 spots since 2020 (#1,099 → #1,631)
- 845 spots since 2015 (#786 → #1,631)
- Biggest jump: 273 spots in 2014 (#981 → #708)
- Biggest drop: 143 spots in 2019 (#960 → #1,103)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 2014 at #708 (397 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2013–2018
- Highest: 1 in 4,500 girls born in 2014 were named Amia (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,656 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 44.9% of all girls named Amia (2,732) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15 | #4,982 (1967) | #5,136 |
| 1970s | 65 | #5,215 (1976) | #7,153 |
| 1980s | 143 | #3,739 (1981) | #5,392 |
| 1990s | 377 | #1,804 (1999) | #3,802 |
| 2000s | 1,693 | #1,113 (2008) | #1,318 |
| 2010s | 2,732 | #708 (2014) | #1,010 |
| 2020s | 1,055 | #1,099 (2020) | #1,337 |
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.
Amia in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 7,560 of them was named Amia, which outranked 93.9% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,099Layan224
- #1,101Lilia223
- #1,101Mattie223
- #1,103Amia222
- #1,103Birdie222
- #1,103Eleanora222
- #1,103Lenora222
- #1,108Zhavia221
- #1,109Aislinn220
- #1,109Annabel220
Tied with 4 names at #1,103; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.