girls:
10.1k births since 1995
#1583 (72nd percentile)
overall:
10.1k births since 1995
#2655 (66th percentile)
The name Amya is the #2,655 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,116 recorded births since 1995. This represents the 65.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,583 (72.3% percentile) for all time with 10,116 births since 1995.
Amya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1995 (first recorded for girls in 1995). Birth data for Amya is available in 28 out of the 29 years between 1995 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Amya reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 58.0% percentile (ranked #394) with 355 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 355 births per million (ranked 58.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Amya ranks #833 for girls (12.1% percentile) with 68 births per million, which is 19.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Amya".
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Our model has identified 17 different pronunciations for the name Amya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.5% confident that Amya is pronounced as uh-MAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-myuh, at 18.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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