Amaya
Amaya was given to 1,723 girls in 2025, #180 among girls’ names; 43,547 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 43,200 Americans named Amaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amaya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amaya is “a female given name from Spanish borrowed from Spanish in the 1990s.”
Heroine of a Spanish historical novel Amaya o los vascos del siglo VIII (1877) by F. Navarro Villoslada, explained as Basque amai (“the end”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amaya?
#180 among girls’ names, 2025
Amaya rose from #214 in 2015 to #180 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.86 to 1.1 per 1,000.
2,280 babies in 2018, the peak
Amaya peaked in 2018, when 2,280 girls were given it, #129 among girls’ names. The 1,723 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,723 | #180 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 1,817 | #168 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 1,758 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 1,724 | #169 | 1.1 |
| 2021 | 1,783 | #161 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 1,939 | #139 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 2,063 | #133 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 2,280 | #129 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 1,718 | #176 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 1,590 | #204 | 0.90 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,528 | #214 | 0.86 |
| 2014 | 1,368 | #237 | 0.77 |
| 2013 | 1,368 | #234 | 0.78 |
| 2012 | 1,477 | #212 | 0.84 |
| 2011 | 1,486 | #209 | 0.84 |
| 2010 | 1,395 | #226 | 0.78 |
| 2009 | 1,598 | #202 | 0.87 |
| 2008 | 1,679 | #199 | 0.89 |
| 2007 | 1,699 | #201 | 0.88 |
| 2006 | 1,594 | #215 | 0.84 |
| 2005 | 1,513 | #226 | 0.82 |
| 2004 | 1,619 | #209 | 0.88 |
| 2003 | 1,769 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 1,099 | #283 | 0.61 |
| 2001 | 1,056 | #295 | 0.59 |
| 2000 | 1,632 | #196 | 0.90 |
| 1999 | 704 | #398 | 0.40 |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,456 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 92 | #1,694 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,207 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,149 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,612 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 26 | #3,986 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,723 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,598 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,319 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,548 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,129 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,349 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,767 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,040 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,422 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,470 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,722 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,426 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,446 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,711 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,403 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,474 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,191 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,118 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,315 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amaya has been given almost only to girls: 22 boys in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Amaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amaya, and how old are they?
43,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 43,547 Americans ever recorded as Amaya. The median Amaya alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 29,006 people named Amaya (28,911 women and girls, 95 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 33,044 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 43 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 285 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 20,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 22,500 |
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 Amaya born?
The states with the most babies named Amaya are California, Florida and Texas, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 271 | #110 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 174 | #93 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 173 | #192 | 0.9× |
| New York | 117 | #141 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 69 | #143 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 56 | #112 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 50 | #124 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 49 | #229 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 49 | #164 | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 45 | #115 | 0.9× |
Where Amaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amaya is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1972 it was given 1.8 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 Amaya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 801,890 babies since 1880, Amaya is the second most given (5.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,723 of their 4,594 babies (38%), the 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 Amaya
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 Amaya and names like it
- Compare Amaya and AmyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmaya peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amaya since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Amaya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Amaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.