Amiyah

What Amiyah means

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

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #305 in 2015, #620 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Amiyah?

US: Falling: down from #305 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #487 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2018, when 1,193 girls got the name (#277 that year). First in the US records in 1994.

How common

• About 1 in 3,412 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,518 baby girls 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 WV (1.77 per 1,000 girls), NM (1.07 per 1,000 girls), MS (0.9 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Amiyah is #620 in the US and #551 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Amiyah were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Amaya1,723 US · 398 E&W
• Amayah323 US · 115 E&W
• Amiya111 US · 16 E&W
• Amya92 US
• Ameya53 US · 18 E&W
• Amaiyah35 US · 20 E&W
• Amaiya32 US · 17 E&W
• Amyah49 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 Amiyah

Girls

• Rylee#137Variant of Riley, meaning “rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Riley#48“rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Olivia#1“olive; olive branch”^*
• Madelyn#70Editor’s note Down from #59 in 2015 to #70 in 2025 in the US
• Reagan#248“descendant of Riagán”^*
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*

For a brother

• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Jackson#36Editor’s note Down from #17 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US boys in the 2025 records
• Carter#45“son of Arthur”^*
• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025
• Wyatt#38“war + hard, brave”^*
• Owen#31Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #31 vs #170 in 2025

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 Amiyah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.