Amaiya
Feminine
Amaiya belongs to the American -aiya family, and it stands near the Basque Amaia — a name a nineteenth-century novel put into circulation.
How old is the name Amaiya?
Amaiya first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Amaiya alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,900 people named Amaiya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amaiya most popular?
Amaiya peaked in 2000, reaching #1542 nationally. Today it ranks #4352, 2,810 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Amaiya
Ours, offered as ours. Basque naming has an unusual dependence on nineteenth-century literature: a great many of its most-used women's names — Amaia, Nekane, Edurne, Miren — were either coined or popularized by writers and by a deliberate revival that gave Basque equivalents for Spanish names. Amaia comes from a novel about the end of Basque independence and means an end. Amaiya in American records almost certainly comes from elsewhere, and the Basque revival is worth knowing about.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established. Basque Amaia means an end or conclusion and comes from an 1879 historical novel; Japanese Amaya names night rain. The Ama- and -iya pieces of American naming are the likelier source.
Pronouncing Amaiya
uh-MY-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Amaiya
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1995
- Most girls named
- 2000116 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1542reached in 2000
- Change vs 2024
- −23.8%32 in 2025, from 42
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Amaiya in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amaia in Basque — related form
- Amaya in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Amaiyas among us
people named Amaiya are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was named Amaiya
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Amaiya
- #4352
- Amaiya on the 2025 chart
- #105
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amaiya went to 32 girls in 2025, but Amaya, Amaia and Amayah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 8 spellings went to 2,743, which makes it the 105th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,247 places above the chart.
and 2 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 586 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 50,227 for Amaiya itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Nicholle test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amaiya's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nicholle climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nicholle's path sketches the road Amaiya is walking now.
Amaiya sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Amaiya is headed
Amaiya should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Amaiya beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amaiya in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Maya is a complete short form and a very familiar name in its own right.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- Amaiya, Amaiyah, Amaya and Amaia are all in use and none is dominant.
- Six letters and three syllables is manageable but not short.
- There is no documented meaning for this spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amaiyas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Amaiya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Amaiya?
- Amaiya is one of 6 recorded spellings. Amaya is the more common one — 1,723 births in 2025 against 32 for Amaiya.
- How popular is the name Amaiya in 2025?
- Amaiya ranks #4352 among US girl names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amaiya?
- About 1 in every 50,227 US girls born in 2025 was named Amaiya — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amaiya with classmates?
- Amaiya will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Amaiya
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