A modern form of a medieval name: Amia is a variant of Amy, that was already popular in 16th-century England. Via French Amee, it developed from the Latin name Amata, which was inspired by the word ‘amata’ meaning ‘beloved’.
Amia is a first name for girls.
The name Amia isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Amia ranks 888. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Amia. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Amia.
A modern form of a medieval name: Amia is a variant of Amy, that was already popular in 16th-century England. Via French Amee, it developed from the Latin name Amata, which was inspired by the word ‘amata’ meaning ‘beloved’.
Amia was created in... the early 1970s, when Amy was one of the most popular girls names in the US.
Amia is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Amia cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #660 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2014. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Amia, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Amia seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Amia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
203 babies were named Amia in 2022 - that's 1 in 730,206 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Amia ranked 1,074 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Amia, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 33 states are home to women and girls named Amia. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Amia living in one state or another. If your name is Amia and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Amia relative to the population, you still have to ask 15,202 women and girls their names before you hear Amia as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With four letters, the name Amia is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Amia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Amia, you can simply say:
Apple
Mouse
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Amia
Amia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
M
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
M
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Amia sounds like this:
