Amilyah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 18 babies a year in the US.
Amilyah by the numbers
Amilyah was given to 18 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 24 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Amilyah
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 Amilyah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Amilyah
Names that are said the same way as Amilyah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Ameliawork, industriousness2,153 in England and Wales (2025)
- Amaliawork or labor491 in the US (2017)
- Amiliawork, industriousness; a spelling variant of Amelia173 in the US (2017)
- Ameliahwork, industriousness; a modern respelling of Amelia57 in the US (2017)
- Amelliaindustrious, striving; a variant of Amelia49 in the US (2017)
- Amalyawork; a form of amalia16 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Amilyah
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