Amaya
Amaya is ranked 169th among girls in 2024 (1,809 births). Its best rank was 130th, in 2018.
- Rank in 2024
- #169down 7 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,8090.11% of girls
- Peak year
- 20182,277 births
- Best rank
- #130in 2018
- Since 1972
- 41,782people given the name
The story in the numbers
41,782 girls have been named Amaya in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 2,277 births — 0.13% of all girls recorded that year.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 39%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2018, its biggest year
Amaya was the 130th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2018.
Names that rose and fell with Amaya
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alyzapeak 2004
- Ishikapeak 2001
- Amariapeak 2004
- Anayapeak 2016
- Zaydapeak 2020
- Darianapeak 2000
- Giavannapeak 2021
- Xitlalipeak 2004
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.