Amylah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-MY-la
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #4,264 for girls
Amylah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,264th for girls in the US (33 babies).
Where does Amylah come from?
Modern: spelling of Amyla; modern coinage, perhaps Amy + -la or a spelling of Amila
Meaning borrowed from Amyla.
Is Amylah a girl's or a boy's name?
Amylah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 33 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Amylah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,264among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 33about 1 in 49,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 1% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 33 girls in the US were named Amylah, making it the 4,264th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,675th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 40 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Amylah in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 89 girls in the US were given Amylah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,840, up from #4,264 for this spelling alone.
Amylah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,264 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,038 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,996 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,039 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,503 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,675 |
| 2019 | 20 | #5,982 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,143 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,189 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,631 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,014 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
Nicknames for Amylah
- Amy 138 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Amylah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aziyah Zaniyah Zaliyah Alaiyah Hadassah Aaliyah Nusaybah Kaliyah Azylah Kamiyah Zalayah Jaziyah
Other spellings of Amylah
Names related to Amylah
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
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, “Amylah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amylah, updated 20 October 2026.