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Amiya

#1,809 in 2025Girls' name

My mother is Jah

Amiya has been given to 8,672 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #1,809 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 484 recorded.

Babies named Amiya, 2025

1 in 29,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amiya: meaning, origin, and history

My mother is Jah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amiya means

Amiya means “My mother is Jah”, associated with āmíjah.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Variant of Amiyah, from Hebrew אמאיה (āmíjah, literally “My mother is Jah”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Amiya (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Amiya is used in English.

Amiya comes through Hebrew אמאיה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amiyah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,672 girls were recorded with the name Amiya between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 484 in 2009; its best national rank was #624 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,032 in 2020 to #1,809 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #703 in 2015 to #1,809 in 2025.

How common is Amiya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,900
111 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,809
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,703 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amiya 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 20,703 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amiyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amiya was born before 2011 — so the typical Amiya is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,672
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (3,978).

Is Amiya 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
−395
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−777
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,106
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.27×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.9%
Peak was 2009 (484)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#624
2009

Spellings of Amiya

Amiya is not the most common spelling — Amy is, with 24.6% against Amiya's 0.30%.

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 Amiya is used

Across 2016–2025, Amiya was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 3,030 girls, against 1 in 6,176 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 33,333).

333 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 3,030
  2. 2Michigan1 in 3,030
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 3,226
  4. 4Maryland1 in 3,333
  5. 5Ohio1 in 3,333
  6. 6Indiana1 in 3,571
  7. 7Georgia1 in 3,704
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 3,704

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, Amiya is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 64% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Amiya around the world

Where Amiya 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
    2000–2025
    #1,809
    in 2025
  • France
    2015–2020
    #7,562
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Amiya

People whose public names include Amiya, 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.

Amiya in other languages

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

MiyaKamiya

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

Amiya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,809
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 777
Best rank ever
#624
2009
Peak year
2009
484 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,672
Count in 2025
111

Names similar to Amiya

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

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Names with a curve like Amiya

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

MadalynnJayleeTaliyahJaelynnMiahMaleahZionJazlynnMyahAryanaAryannaAiyana

Sibling names for Amiya

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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