Amaia
Amaia was given to 547 girls in 2025, #555 among girls’ names; 5,499 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,460 Americans named Amaia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amaia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amaia?
#555 among girls’ names, 2025
Amaia rose from #1,417 in 2015 to #555 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.34 per 1,000.
547 babies in 2025, the peak
Amaia peaked in 2025, when 547 girls were given it, #555 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 501 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 547 | #555 | 0.34 |
| 2024 | 501 | #601 | 0.31 |
| 2023 | 473 | #627 | 0.29 |
| 2022 | 470 | #628 | 0.29 |
| 2021 | 462 | #643 | 0.28 |
| 2020 | 521 | #565 | 0.32 |
| 2019 | 367 | #763 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 354 | #771 | 0.21 |
| 2017 | 252 | #1,027 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 189 | #1,280 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 163 | #1,417 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,050 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 93 | #2,065 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,081 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,954 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,362 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,041 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 83 | #2,335 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,512 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,556 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,313 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,554 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,768 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,778 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,043 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,853 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,449 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,808 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,906 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,618 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,832 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amaia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amaia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amaia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amaia, and how old are they?
5,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,499 Americans ever recorded as Amaia. The median Amaia alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 2,386 people named Amaia (2,381 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,638 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 988 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,460 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Amaia born?
The states with the most babies named Amaia are Florida, Texas and New York, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 99 | #180 | 2.6× |
| Texas | 68 | #478 | 1.0× |
| New York | 58 | #292 | 1.8× |
| California | 57 | #565 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | #349 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 24 | #339 | 1.7× |
| Massachusetts | 21 | #273 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 17 | #614 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 15 | #621 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 11 | #587 | 0.6× |
Where Amaia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amaia is most over-represented in Florida: since 1993 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Amaia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Amaia?
Amaia is a less common spelling of Amaya: SSA has recorded 5,499 Amaia and 43,547 Amaya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 109,511 babies since 1880, Amaia is the eighth most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 547 of their 2,995 babies (18%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amaia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Amaia and names like it
- Compare Amaia and AmayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmaia peaked in 2025.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amaia since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Amaia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amaia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.