Amya
#2,051 for girls in 2025, 92 births
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 717 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,312since 1995
Amya over time
Rank among girls' names. Amya has never cracked the top 400 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 | #2,051 | 92 |
| 2024 | #1,966 | 100 |
| 2023 | #1,709 | 120 |
| 2022 | #1,684 | 124 |
| 2021 | #1,721 | 120 |
| 2020 | #1,373 | 158 |
| 2019 | #1,198 | 195 |
| 2018 | #1,122 | 218 |
| 2017 | #1,120 | 225 |
| 2016 | #935 | 293 |
| 2015 | #897 | 307 |
| 2014 | #826 | 335 |
| 2013 | #638 | 441 |
| 2012 | #658 | 432 |
| 2011 | #639 | 446 |
| 2010 | #594 | 495 |
| 2009 | #520 | 583 |
| 2008 | #493 | 641 |
| 2007 | #483 | 671 |
| 2006 | #472 | 668 |
| 2005 | #433 | 712 |
| 2004 | #423 | 717 |
| 2003 | #425 | 706 |
| 2002 | #632 | 403 |
| 2001 | #593 | 426 |
| 2000 | #568 | 458 |
| 1999 | #1,159 | 168 |
| 1998 | #3,015 | 42 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
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| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amya! It came in at #11,783, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1996, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Amya is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#1,015 · 1 in 8,418
- Texas#2,427 · 1 in 28,689
Best ever in a state: #91 in Mississippi, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #1,015 | 5 | 1 in 8,418 |
| Texas | #2,427 | 5 | 1 in 28,689 |
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See more about Amya
- 85 spots since 2024 (#1,966 → #2,051)
- 678 spots since 2020 (#1,373 → #2,051)
- 1,154 spots since 2015 (#897 → #2,051)
- Biggest jump: 591 spots in 2000 (#1,159 → #568)
- Biggest drop: 188 spots in 2014 (#638 → #826)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2004 at #423 (717 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2000–2016
- Highest: 1 in 2,561 girls born in 2004 were named Amya (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,470 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 58.0% of all girls named Amya (5,985) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 226 | #1,159 (1999) | #6,073 |
| 2000s | 5,985 | #423 (2004) | #504 |
| 2010s | 3,387 | #594 (2010) | #863 |
| 2020s | 714 | #1,373 (2020) | #1,751 |
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.
Amya in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
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1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 42,070 of them was named Amya, which outranked 81.8% 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).
- #2,973Zayda43
- #2,973Zion43
- #2,973Zipporah43
- #3,015Amya42
- #3,015Aleya42
- #3,015Amberlyn42
- #3,015Anusha42
- #3,068Abygail41
- #3,068Akayla41
- #3,068Alonna41
Tied with 52 names at #3,015; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.