Amia
Feminine · “loved”
Amia reads as loved in Latin — amare, to love — and it is also a recent American coinage on the Am- front, and the record does not choose between them.
How old is the name Amia?
Amia first appears in US birth records in 1965 — 60 years ago. The typical Amia is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 6,000 people named Amia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amia most popular?
Amia peaked in 2014, reaching #708 nationally. Today it ranks #1631, 923 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
From amata to Amia
Our story of Amia
Our story of Amia is a story of a Latin root and an American ending finding the same four letters. Amy has meant beloved in English since the Middle Ages, from the French Amée and the Latin amata. Separately, the -ia ending has been closing new American names for thirty years. Amia sits where the two meet, and the registers pick it up in the 2000s. Some families arrived through the Latin and some through the sound; the record keeps no note of which.
Meaningscholars disagree
loved, beloved
The likeliest inherited route is the Latin amare, 'to love', through Amy and Amata, 'beloved'. A second route treats Amia as a modern coinage on the Am- and -ia sounds, in the pattern of Amira and Aria. Neither is documented for this exact form.
How the name formed
- amata
- Amia
Related forms: Amiah · Amy · Amata
Pronouncing Amia
uh-MEE-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Some bearers say AY-mee-uh with the stress at the front.
Nicknames for Amia
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
- 1965
- Most girls named
- 2014397 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #708reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%127 in 2025, from 127
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.
Amia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amiah in English — spelling variant
- Amy in English — related form
- Amata in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Amias among us
people named Amia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 12,656 born in 2025 was named Amia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amia
- #1631
- Amia on the 2025 chart
- #307
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amia went to 127 girls in 2025, but Amiyah, Amiah and Amiya and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 9 spellings went to 1,021, which makes it the 307th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,324 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 1,574 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 12,656 for Amia 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 Breann test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Breann climbed just as high around 1996, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Breann's path sketches the road Amia is walking now.
Amia 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 Amia is headed
Amia is easing off slowly — about 22% 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.
Amia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The beloved reading is transparent and attractive where it holds.
- Ami and Mia are two short forms, both names in their own right.
- Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- The origin is genuinely split and neither route is documented for this form.
- The stress placement splits between two readings.
- Amiah, Amira and Mia are all close enough to cause confusion.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,000 people named Amia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amia?
- Amia is one of 8 recorded spellings. Amiyah is the more common one — 471 births in 2025 against 127 for Amia.
- How popular is the name Amia in 2025?
- Amia ranks #1631 among US girl names in 2025, with 127 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amia?
- About 1 in every 12,656 US girls born in 2025 was named Amia — 127 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amia with classmates?
- Amia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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