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Amia

#1,631 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Amia has been given to 6,080 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #1,631 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 397 recorded.

Babies named Amia, 2025

1 in 26,100

Amia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amia means

Amia is a given name.

The naming story behind Amia

Wikidata records Amia as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q108410778, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,080 girls were recorded with the name Amia between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 397 in 2014; its best national rank was #708 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,099 in 2020 to #1,631 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #786 in 2015 to #1,631 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.

How common is Amia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,100
127 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 12,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,631
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,095 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amia 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,095 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amia was born before 2013 — so the typical Amia is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,080
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (2,732).

Is Amia 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
−1
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−532
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−845
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.0%
Peak was 2014 (397)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#708
2014

Spellings of Amia

Amia is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 13.1% against Amia's 0.09%.

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 Amia is used

Across 2016–2025, Amia was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 6,982 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

225 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 4,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 4,167
  3. 3Florida1 in 5,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 5,263
  5. 5New York1 in 5,556
  6. 6Arizona1 in 5,882
  7. 7Ohio1 in 5,882
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 5,882

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.

Amia around the world

Where Amia 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
    2001–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2008
    #862
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2009–2023
    #2,049
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2000–2013
    #403
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Amia

People whose public names include Amia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Amia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Amia. Linked forms have their own page here.

AniaAnniaAnnía

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Amia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,631
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 532
Best rank ever
#708
2014
Peak year
2014
397 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,080
Count in 2025
127

Names similar to Amia

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

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Names with a curve like Amia

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

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Sibling names for Amia

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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