girls:
936 births since 1999
#4780 (16th percentile)
overall:
936 births since 1999
#6803 (12th percentile)
The name Amaiyah is the #6,803 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 936 recorded births since 1999. This represents the 12.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,780 (16.3% percentile) for all time with 936 births since 1999.
Amaiyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1999 (first recorded for girls in 1999).
For girls, Amaiyah reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #869) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 35 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Amaiyah ranks #905 for girls (4.4% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 77.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Amaiyah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Amaiyah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 39 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Amaya" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Amaya..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Amaiyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.8% confident that Amaiyah is pronounced as uh-MAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-MAY-uh, at 29.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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