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Amaya
Rank in 2024
#169
Born in 2024
1,809
Peak year
2018 · #130
Origin
Spanish
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,809 girls were named Amaya, about 1 in every 892.
- It peaked in 2018 with 2,277 babies, ranked #130.
- It first shows up in the records in 1972.
- 41,782 girls have been named Amaya since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Amaya per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0Greatest1901–27
- 0Silent1928–45
- 0Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.7Gen Z1997–12
- 1.0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 45 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 292 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 20,528 babies, 0.71 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 20,917 babies, 1.03 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Heroine of a Spanish historical novel Amaya o los vascos del siglo VIII (1877) by F. Navarro Villoslada, explained as Basque amai (“the end”).
- A female given name from Spanish borrowed from Spanish in the 1990s.
- Origin
- Spanish
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Amaya, CC BY-SA 4.0.