Amaiyah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 20 babies a year in England and Wales.
Amaiyah by the numbers
In 2025, 20 babies in England and Wales were named Amaiyah. In the US, 45 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 67 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Amaiyah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Amaiyah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Anaiyahgod has answered; a form of Anayah or Hannah24 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alaiyahexalted or ascent; a modern respelling of Aliyah17 in England and Wales (2025)
- Amariyahpromised by God; a form of Amariah42 in the US (2017)
- Amaliyahwork of God; a form of Amelia7 in the US (2017)
- Amalyahwork of God; a form of Amelia7 in the US (2017)
- Amiyah1,189 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Amaiyah
Names that are said the same way as Amaiyah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Amaiyah
Nobody has voted for Amaiyah yet
Vote for Amaiyah and put it up against all the other baby names
Vote for Amaiyah