Amayah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Amayah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Amayah: Recorded every year since 2006, its highest recorded position is #306, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
21times a registrar ranked it
20years from first to last
#306highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2006–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2006	#5061
2007	#4294
2008	#1718
2009	#1909
2010	#1901
2011	#2025
2012	#1099
2013	#925
2014	#920
2015	#625
2016	#744
2017	#480
2018	#503
2019	#343
2020	#376
2021	#355
2022	#316
2023	#306
2024	#328

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2006 to 2024.

In 2024: #328 among girls in England and Wales, #638 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2006–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2006
First recorded at #5061 among girls in England and Wales in 2006 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2006–2024
Highest recorded position: #306 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 2006–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #328 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Amayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Amayah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	35	4 of 10	9
2010s	563	10 of 10	56
2020sbusiest	660	5 of 10	132

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 132 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2018 and 2019, when recorded births rose by 45, from 85 to 130.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Amayah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2006 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #306 in England and Wales in 2023.

Amayah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#328	131	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#306	142	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#316	139	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#355	131	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#376	117	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#343	130	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#503	85	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#480	91	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#744	53	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#625	66	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#920	40	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#925	40	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1099	31	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1901	14	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1909	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1718	15	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2006 and 2025, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #306, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 142 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 19 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Amaya · #104, 29y
Amaya-Rose · #2201, 11y
Amayra · #565, 10y
Amba · #736, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cj · #306, 23y
Irha · #306, 15y
Lilly-Rose · #306, 22y
Brandan · #307, 21y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Irha · #306, 15y
Lilly-Rose · #306, 22y
Lauchlan · #307, 15y
Maitiu · #305, 14y

Amayah was ranked #306 in England and Wales · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Amayah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Amayah without appearing here.

Amayah moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 2007 they stood at #5061 and #4157 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1718 and #5545.
Dianne Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4294 and #4294 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1718 and #5545.
Freddie Compare
In 2007 they stood at #5061 and #3548 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1718 and #5545.
Kristine Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4294 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1718 and #5545.

Moved the opposite way to Amayah

Abigail Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amayah went from #5061 to #328 while Abigail went from #23 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amayah went from #5061 to #328 while Aimee went from #65 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amayah went from #5061 to #328 while Aisling went from #1004 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amayah went from #5061 to #328 while Alex went from #279 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Amayah

Ada Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amayah went from #5061 to #328 and Ada from #976 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amayah went from #5061 to #328 and Alma from #1087 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amayah went from #5061 to #328 and Amelia from #16 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amayah went from #5061 to #328 and Aria from #1280 to #35.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2006 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #306 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Amayah

Amayah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Amayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Amayah at a glance

Amayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Amayah and the names beside it

Amayah moved ahead of

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