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Amayah

#841 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Amaya

Amayah has been given to 5,653 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #841 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 419 recorded.

Babies named Amayah, 2025

1 in 10,300

Amayah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amayah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Amaya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amayah means

Amayah is a variant of Amaya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Amayah is a variant of Amaya. Amaya has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Amayah is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amaya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,653 girls were recorded with the name Amayah between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 419 in 2022; its best national rank was #700 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #929 in 2020 to #841 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,049 in 2015 to #841 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 Amayah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,300
323 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,980
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#841
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,115 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amayah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,115 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amayahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amayah was born before 2017 — so the typical Amayah is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,653
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.1% of all recorded uses (2,549).

Is Amayah 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
−141
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+88
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+208
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.1%
Peak was 2022 (419)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#700
2024

Spellings of Amayah

Amayah is not the most common spelling — Maya is, with 22.2% against Amayah's 1.0%.

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 Amayah is used

Across 2016–2025, Amayah was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 1,961 girls, against 1 in 4,425 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 33,333).

351 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 1,961
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 2,273
  3. 3Florida1 in 2,326
  4. 4Arizona1 in 3,030
  5. 5New York1 in 3,125
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 3,448
  7. 7California1 in 3,571
  8. 8Washington1 in 3,846

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Geographically, Amayah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 69% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Amayah around the world

Where Amayah 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
    2006–2025
    #371
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    2016–2025
    #1,367
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #889
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2013
    #403
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Amayah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#841
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 88
Best rank ever
#700
2024
Peak year
2022
419 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,653
Count in 2025
323

Names similar to Amayah

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

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Names with a curve like Amayah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Amayah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Amayah

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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