# Amaya (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/amaya/  
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 | Spanish |
| Meaning | “the end” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 43,547 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 22 / 43,525 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6,011, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Heroine of a Spanish historical novel Amaya o los vascos del siglo VIII (1877) by F. Navarro Villoslada, explained as Basque amai (“the end”).

## 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 | 1,486 | 209 |
| 2012 | 1,477 | 212 |
| 2013 | 1,368 | 234 |
| 2014 | 1,368 | 237 |
| 2015 | 1,528 | 214 |
| 2016 | 1,590 | 204 |
| 2017 | 1,718 | 176 |
| 2018 | 2,280 | 129 |
| 2019 | 2,063 | 133 |
| 2020 | 1,939 | 139 |
| 2021 | 1,783 | 161 |
| 2022 | 1,724 | 169 |
| 2023 | 1,758 | 162 |
| 2024 | 1,817 | 168 |
| 2025 | 1,723 | 180 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 7 | 8,967 |
| 2013 | 5 | 12,235 |
| 2015 | 5 | 12,186 |
| 2017 | 5 | 12,359 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 191 | 255 |
| 2012 | 210 | 238 |
| 2013 | 256 | 198 |
| 2014 | 233 | 220 |
| 2015 | 332 | 165 |
| 2016 | 349 | 159 |
| 2017 | 393 | 137 |
| 2018 | 435 | 123 |
| 2019 | 458 | 113 |
| 2020 | 473 | 107 |
| 2021 | 423 | 119 |
| 2022 | 395 | 127 |
| 2023 | 423 | 115 |
| 2024 | 446 | 104 |
| 2025 | 398 | 122 |

## People named Amaya

- Amaya Coppens, Belgian-Nicaraguan activist

## 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.