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Amya

#2,051 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Amaya

Amya has been given to 10,312 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #2,051 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 717 recorded.

Babies named Amya, 2025

1 in 36,000

Amya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amya: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Amaya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amya means

Amya is a variant of Amaya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Amya is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amaya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,312 girls were recorded with the name Amya between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 717 in 2004; its best national rank was #423 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,374 in 2020 to #2,051 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #897 in 2015 to #2,051 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 Amya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,000
92 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,051
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,978 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amya 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,978 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amya was born before 2008 — so the typical Amya is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
58.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,312
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 58.0% of all recorded uses (5,985).

Is Amya 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
−85
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−677
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,154
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.8%
Peak was 2004 (717)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#423
2004

Spellings of Amya

Amya is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 18.5% against Amya's 0.21%.

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 Amya is used

Across 2016–2025, Amya was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 10,393 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in 50,000).

222 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 4,545
  2. 2Michigan1 in 5,882
  3. 3Georgia1 in 6,250
  4. 4Illinois1 in 6,250
  5. 5Indiana1 in 6,250
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 6,250
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 7,692
  8. 8Florida1 in 8,333

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.

Amya around the world

Where Amya 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
    2002–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2007–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1991–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Amya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,051
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 677
Best rank ever
#423
2004
Peak year
2004
717 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,312
Count in 2025
92

Names similar to Amya

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

AmyahAmyraJamyaKamyaSamyaTamyaAmylaLamyaAmyiahMyaAmyrahDamyaAmyeZamyaRamyaShamyaAmyiaAmyriDemyaKimyaAmylahAmyliaCamyaAmy

Names with a curve like Amya

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

JaidaJaniyaBrisaMadysonJakaylaJaelynSanaaJaylinMonserratLitzyZoieJaylyn

Sibling names for Amya

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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