Amilya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-MIL-yah
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Amilya is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “work”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Amilya mean?
Germanic: variant of Amelia, from the element amal
“work”
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Is Amilya a girl's or a boy's name?
Amilya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Amilya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,489among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 59% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Amilya, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,077th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 62 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the girls named Amilya in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Amilya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,904 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,677 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,077 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,922 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,917 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,475 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,326 |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,129 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,003 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,836 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,804 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,451 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,158 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,459 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,880 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,806 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,708 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,523 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,072 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,581 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,810 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,344 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
Nicknames for Amilya
Names like Amilya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Amira Zaniyah Alaya Hadassah Aliya Safa Kaliyah Zahara Aziyah Zamira Safiya
Names related to Amilya
More Germanic names
Amelia Liam Henry Charlotte William Archie Charlie Emma Freddie Ella Harry Millie Albie Matilda Louie Miles
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Amilya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amilya, updated 20 October 2026.