Given name
Amiya
“My mother is Jah”
Amiya is a feminine given name from Hebrew, meaning “My mother is Jah.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Hebrew אמאיה (āmíjah, “My mother is Jah”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amiya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 8,672
- 0 boys · 8,672 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 484 babies
- 2025
- 111
- #1,809 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −47%
- Cooling
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 111 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 1,809 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 47.2% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 484 in 2009. In 2025, Ohio had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (12). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,943 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Amiya’s family of names
In English usage, Amiya has a related form in AMIYAH.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amiya
- Amiya ChakravartyIndian film director, screenwriter and producer (1912–1957)
- Amiya Kumar MallickIndian track and field athleteborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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