Amiya

Where Amiya comes from

Variant of Amiyah, from Hebrew אמאיה (āmíjah, literally “My mother is Jah”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Amiya
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    Amiya Chakravarty born
    Indian film director, screenwriter and producer
  2. 1990
    First appearance
    #11,409 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1992
    Amiya Kumar Mallick born
    Indian track and field athlete
  4. 2009
    Peak, #624
    484 babies named Amiya — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2021
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,169.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Amiya Chakravarty · Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, 1912–1957
  • Amiya Kumar Mallick · Indian track and field athlete, born 1992
  • Amiya Pujari · Indian scientist, 1948–2003

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.