Amiyah

Where Amiyah comes from

The dictionaries list Amiyah as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1994
    First appearance
    #13,430 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2016
    Peak, #256
    1,238 babies named Amiyah — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #511.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Amiyah turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.