How rare is the name Amya?

7,536 people in the United States have the first name Amya, about 1 in 40,078. It ranks #2,981 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

AMYA

#2,981

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,536
About
1 in 40,078
This common or more
81.4%
Who bears it

Of the 7,536 people named Amya, 56.7% reported their origin as Black, 15.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 14.4% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Amya peaked in 2004, when 717 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19952025
Peak year
2004
Births that year
717
In 2025*
92 ▼87%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 10,312 babies have been given the name since 1995. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Amya by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #933. The largest share of babies named Amya, 73.5%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1990s#7,422226
2000s#9335,985
2010s#1,5223,387
2020s#3,165714
Millennials 1981–960.1%
Generation Z 1997–1273.5%
2013 and later26.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Amya is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Amya has been most common in Louisiana (2.2×), Mississippi (2.1×), and Georgia (2×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.39×).

9,159 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Amya

#2,979 Chastity · 7,541#2,980 Theron · 7,539#2,982 Braulio · 7,526#2,983 Yael · 7,524

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Amya, most common first.

#65 Amy · 625,127#1,278 Amaya · 29,006#3,489 Amiya · 5,943#4,454 Amia · 4,184#5,440 Amna · 3,163#7,051 Amyah · 2,201#7,838 Ama · 1,900#10,207 Ameya · 1,319

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