# Amaia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/amaia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,499 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 5,499 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 613, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 101 | 1,954 |
| 2012 | 92 | 2,081 |
| 2013 | 93 | 2,065 |
| 2014 | 95 | 2,050 |
| 2015 | 163 | 1,417 |
| 2016 | 189 | 1,280 |
| 2017 | 252 | 1,027 |
| 2018 | 354 | 771 |
| 2019 | 367 | 763 |
| 2020 | 521 | 565 |
| 2021 | 462 | 643 |
| 2022 | 470 | 628 |
| 2023 | 473 | 627 |
| 2024 | 501 | 601 |
| 2025 | 547 | 555 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 1,295 |
| 2012 | 20 | 1,525 |
| 2013 | 15 | 1,864 |
| 2014 | 24 | 1,341 |
| 2015 | 26 | 1,279 |
| 2016 | 34 | 1,031 |
| 2017 | 29 | 1,184 |
| 2018 | 48 | 791 |
| 2019 | 37 | 955 |
| 2020 | 39 | 916 |
| 2021 | 45 | 801 |
| 2022 | 54 | 683 |
| 2023 | 51 | 706 |
| 2024 | 48 | 776 |
| 2025 | 31 | 1,079 |

## People named Amaia

- Amaia Zubiria, Basque singer (born 1947)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.