Ameya
#3,067 for girls in 2025, 53 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 82.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 63 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 967since 1998
Ameya over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,067 | 53 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #4,207 | 34 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #4,114 | 35 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,827 | 39 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,215 | 50 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,015 | 53 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,611 | 42 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,497 | 44 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,903 | 57 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,773 | 63 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,137 | 52 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,854 | 40 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #5,226 | 27 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #4,268 | 36 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #4,213 | 36 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #3,919 | 38 | #5,303 | 16 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #5,278 | 15 |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #8,479 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ameya! It came in at #9,260, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1998–2002, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ameya
- 1,140 spots since 2024 (#4,207 → #3,067)
- 52 spots since 2020 (#3,015 → #3,067)
- 294 spots since 2015 (#2,773 → #3,067)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2015 at #2,773 (63 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,335 girls born in 2015 were named Ameya (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,326 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 48.1% of all girls named Ameya (465) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2002, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 18 | #9,260 (1998) | #9,370 |
| 2000s | 220 | #3,919 (2006) | #6,632 |
| 2010s | 465 | #2,773 (2015) | #3,501 |
| 2020s | 264 | #3,015 (2020) | #3,574 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ameya in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 44,026 of them was named Ameya, which outranked 80.3% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,782Zaara41
- #3,782Zahraa41
- #3,782Zaylie41
- #3,854Ameya40
- #3,854Alianah40
- #3,854Anagha40
- #3,854Anasofia40
- #3,915Aashna39
- #3,915Adriel39
- #3,915Akeelah39
Tied with 60 names at #3,854; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 379,389 of them was named Ameya, which outranked 13.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,976 names at #12,274; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.