Amias

What Amias means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Amias yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #642 vs #1,226 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Amias?

US: Rising: up from #1588 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 435 boys got the name (#642 that year). First in the US records in 2000.

How common

• About 1 in 3,927 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 11,823 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ND (1.79 per 1,000 boys), CO (0.56 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.53 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Amias is #642 in the US and #1226 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Amias were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Emias13 US
• Ahmias10 US
• Amiaz9 US
• Amaias6 US
• Amisi6 US
• Omias5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Amias

Boys

• Adriel#84“flock of God”^*
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025
• Leo#19“lion”^*
• Lennox#289Editor’s note Used for both: 75% of US babies named Lennox in 2025 were boys
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Ezekiel#61“God strengthens”^*

For a sister

• Emilia#45Variant of Emily, meaning “rival, emulator”^*
• Kailani#253“sea + sky”^*
• Genevieve#148possibly “kin, family + woman, wife”^*
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Millie#73Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #469 in 2015, #73 in 2025
• Zara#212“flower”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Amias’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.