How Many People Are Named Amaya?

43,213

people named Amaya are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 7,909 people in the US has this name

Based on 43,547 babies named Amaya in Social Security records from 1972 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,012

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#520

See the top 100

Peak Year

2018

2,280 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Basque, Spanish
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of AMAIA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.1%

All of the babies given the name Amaya in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Amaya alive today is about 12 years old, and 99% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 19 in 2025.

Under 30 42,945
99.4%
30 to 59 268
0.6%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Amaya first appears in the records in 1972 and was given most often in 2018, to 2,280 babies. In 2025, 1,723 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1972 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Amaya has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #129, in 2018. In 2025 it ranked #180.

Girls
Rank in 2025#180
Best rank#129 (2018)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#195 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Amaya alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Amaya were born in California than in any other state: about 6,469 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Amaya was given 2.6 times as often in New Mexico, 2.1 times in Hawaii and 1.6 times in Nevada.

California 6,469
Texas 4,077
Florida 3,181
New York 3,082
Illinois 1,669
Arizona 1,391
Pennsylvania 1,348
New Jersey 1,339
Georgia 1,333
Virginia 1,180
North Carolina 1,136
Ohio 1,134
Washington 1,026
Michigan 992
Massachusetts 855
Colorado 796
Maryland 782
Indiana 773
Tennessee 692
Wisconsin 635
Louisiana 605
Missouri 593
Oregon 545
Connecticut 543
New Mexico 518
Nevada 504
Minnesota 496
South Carolina 455
Alabama 450
Oklahoma 401
Kansas 389
Kentucky 341
Mississippi 323
Utah 287
Idaho 284
Iowa 278
Arkansas 243
Nebraska 216
Hawaii 190
Rhode Island 139
District of Columbia 121
West Virginia 107
Delaware 97
Maine 61
New Hampshire 56
Montana 43
North Dakota 28
Alaska 27
South Dakota 26
Wyoming 11

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