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Amiyah

#620 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Amaya

Amiyah has been given to 18,643 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #620 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 1,238 recorded.

Babies named Amiyah, 2025

1 in 7,040

Amiyah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amiyah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Amaya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amiyah means

Amiyah is a variant of Amaya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Amiyah is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amaya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18,643 girls were recorded with the name Amiyah between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,238 in 2016; its best national rank was #256 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #318 in 2020 to #620 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #305 in 2015 to #620 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 Amiyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,040
471 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,410
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#620
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,880 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amiyah 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,880 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amiyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amiyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amiyah was born before 2015 — so the typical Amiyah is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
18,643
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (10,363).

Is Amiyah 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
−109
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−302
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−315
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.0%
Peak was 2016 (1,238)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#256
2016

Spellings of Amiyah

Amiyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 14.2% against Amiyah's 2.4%.

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 Amiyah is used

Across 2016–2025, Amiyah was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 775 girls, against 1 in 1,508 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 10,000).

10129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 775
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 800
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 806
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 813
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 962
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 971
  7. 7Georgia1 in 1,020
  8. 8Alabama1 in 1,042

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, Amiyah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 24% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Amiyah around the world

Where Amiyah 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
    2003–2025
    #551
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2024
    #407
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2021–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #963
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Amiyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#620
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 302
Best rank ever
#256
2016
Peak year
2016
1,238 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
18,643
Count in 2025
471

Names similar to Amiyah

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

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Names with a curve like Amiyah

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

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Sibling names for Amiyah

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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