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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 32,817 of them was named Ameya, which outranked 81.8% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,157Wylie51
- #3,157Wynona51
- #3,157Xylah51
- #3,215Ameya50
- #3,215Ameliah50
- #3,215Anaiyah50
- #3,215Annalie50
- #3,250Aaryn49
- #3,250Aleiah49
- #3,250Aleina49
Tied with 34 names at #3,215; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.