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Amias

#642 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Amyas

Amias has been given to 3,116 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #642 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 435 recorded.

Babies named Amias, 2025

1 in 7,620

Amias over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amias: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Amyas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amias means

Amias is a variant of Amyas.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Amias → Amyas. The family’s meaning is “friend”, recorded in English with the source elements amīcus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amyas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,109 boys were recorded with the name Amias between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 435 in 2025; its best national rank was #642 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #700 in 2020 to #642 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,589 in 2015 to #642 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Amias between 2022 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2022; its best national rank was #12,325 in 2022.

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 Amias?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,620
435 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,930
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#642
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amias 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,284 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amias. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amiass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amias was born before 2021 — so the typical Amias is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
71.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,109
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 71.5% of all recorded uses (2,223).

Is Amias 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
+52
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+58
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+947
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (435)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#642
2025

Spellings of Amias

Amias is not the most common spelling — Elias is, with 28.8% against Amias's 0.69%.

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 Amias is used

Across 2016–2025, Amias was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 2,128 boys, against 1 in 6,359 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 25,000).

447 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 2,128
  2. 2Colorado1 in 3,030
  3. 3Arizona1 in 3,571
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 3,846
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 4,348
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 4,348
  7. 7Georgia1 in 5,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 5,556

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.

Geographically, Amias is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 56% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Amias around the world

Where Amias 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
    2008–2025
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Amias by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#642
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 58
Best rank ever
#642
2025
Peak year
2025
435 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,109
Count in 2025
435

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,325
2022
Peak year
2022
7 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Amias

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

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Names with a curve like Amias

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

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Sibling names for Amias

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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