Amias
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Amiens; first attested Richard Amias 1185 Templars (Wa)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/amjas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amias is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 591K
- ESSpain1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈710 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Amiens; first attested Richard Amias 1185 Templars (Wa)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Amias, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amias counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Amias | 25 |
| PH Philippines | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 591K | — | Amias | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 116 | 1 in 1.8M | 116 | Amias | 11 |
| ES Spain | 38 | 1 in 1.3M | 38 | Amias | 14 |
| CO Colombia | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Amias | 10 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Amias is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Richard Amias 1185 Templars (Wa); Willard de Amiens 1193 P (Y); Roger de Amias 1276 LLB A; John Amyas 1296 SRSx. From Amiens. cf. ‘merchants of Amias’ 1326 65 LLB E. In the 16th century the surname was confused with Ames. Thomas Amyas of Wethersfield (1521) was, no doubt, of the same family as Robert Amys, Amyse, Amyce, Ameys (1462–78 ER 61).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John AmiasEnglish Roman Catholic priest and martyr
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 116 | #56,623 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 38 | #53,818 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 38 | #53,553 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Amias mean, and where does it come from?
- from Amiens; first attested Richard Amias 1185 Templars (Wa) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Amias?
- A machine transcription gives /amjas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Amias have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 707 people named Amias in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amias.
- How common is the name Amias?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 116 people named Amias, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amiasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amias”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.