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Amay

#3,660 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Amay has been given to 444 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #3,660 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Amay, 2025

1 in 111,000

Amay over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amay: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amay means

Amay is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Amay is used in Cebuano.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 444 boys were recorded with the name Amay between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,586 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,202 in 2020 to #3,660 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,183 in 2015 to #3,660 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Amay?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,660
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amay sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amay was born before 2019 — so the typical Amay is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
444
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (222).

Is Amay rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−554
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−458
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+523
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2019 (50)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,586
2019

Spellings of Amay

Amay is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 25.8% against Amay's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Amay is used

Across 1910–2025, Amay was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 496,199 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —
  6. 6Virginia1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Amay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amay around the world

Where Amay ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #1,144
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2012
    #385
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Amay by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,660
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 458
Best rank ever
#2,586
2019
Peak year
2019
50 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
444
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Amay

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Amay

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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