Amaya — #169 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Amaya

The Social Security Administration has registered 41,782 babies named Amaya between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Amaya currently holds the #169 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 2,277 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Amaya performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 16,265 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Amaya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6,242 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Amaya in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Amaya in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 41,782 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.