Ameya
Feminine · “immeasurable”
Ameya is given to both — 967 girls and 203 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Ameya means immeasurable. Sanskrit builds it by negation — not measurable, therefore beyond measuring — and it is used in the tradition as an epithet of things too large to be counted.
How old is the name Ameya?
Ameya first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Ameya is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Ameya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ameya most popular?
Ameya peaked in 2015, reaching #2773 nationally. Today it ranks #3067, 294 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
Where it comes from
From ameya to Ameya
The story of Ameya
Sanskrit builds a great many important words by negation — ahimsa, non-violence; advaita, non-duality; ananta, endless; ameya, immeasurable — and the technique carries real philosophical weight, since it describes what something is not rather than pinning it down. Ameya is used as a given name across India, more often for sons in Maharashtra and for daughters elsewhere, and it reaches United States records with Indian families. Every sound in it exists in English, which is why it travels intact.
Meaning
immeasurable, boundless
Sanskrit ameya is a-meya: the negative prefix a- with meya, 'measurable', from the root ma, 'to measure' — the same root behind the English measure at a great distance. The reading is documented and undisputed. It is used as an epithet of Ganesha and of the divine generally, in the sense of what cannot be reckoned.
How the name formed
- ameya
- Ameya
Related forms: अमेय · Ameya · Ameya
Pronouncing Ameya
uh-MAY-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Sanskrit gives all three roughly even weight with a clean final a; American English reduces the last vowel.
Nicknames for Ameya
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most girls named
- 201563 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2773reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- +55.9%53 in 2025, from 34
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Ameya in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- अमेय in Sanskrit — transliteration
- Ameya in Marathi — same name
- Ameya in Hindi — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Washington.
Ameyas among us
people named Ameya are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 30,326 born in 2025 was named Ameya
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ameya
- #3067
- Ameya on the 2025 chart
- #901
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ameya went to 53 girls in 2025, but Ameia is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 59, which makes it the 901st most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,166 places above the chart.
- Ameya53
- Ameia6
About 1 girl in 27,242 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 30,326 for Ameya itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Takeya test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ameya's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Takeya climbed just as high around 1981, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Takeya's path sketches the road Ameya is walking now.
Ameya sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Ameya is headed
Ameya is easing off slowly — about 17% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Ameya beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ameya in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- An exact documented meaning of real philosophical substance.
- Five letters, entirely phonetic, and said nearly correctly by English speakers at first sight.
- Three open syllables that balance a short or blunt surname well.
- In parts of India it is a boys' name, which comes up in Indian communities.
- Ameya, Amaya and Amiya sit close together in English speech and get confused.
- Its meaning is transparent in India and opaque everywhere else.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ameyas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Ameya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ameya?
- Ameya is the most-used spelling in US records — 53 of the 59 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Ameia.
- How popular is the name Ameya in 2025?
- Ameya ranks #3067 among US girl names in 2025, with 53 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ameya?
- About 1 in every 30,326 US girls born in 2025 was named Ameya — 53 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ameya with classmates?
- Ameya will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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