Meaning not yet researched.
Amaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,723 in 2025. Its best rank was #129 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #129 in 2018; #180 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Amaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#180 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #129.
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Amaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,723 girls in 2025. Peak: #129 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 2,280 (2018).
In 2025, 1,723 US girls were named Amaya, making it the 180th most common girls’ name of the year, down 12 places from #168 in 2024. That is 94 fewer than the 1,817 girls named Amaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #129, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,280. For comparison, it was #214 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amaya in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 43,547 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 16,288 babies named Amaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 18,395 US girls were named Amaya; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 2,280. In 2025 that was about 1 in 933 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amaya ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #76 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Maya (123,750 babies since 1880), Anaya (17,997 babies since 1880), Amaia (5,499 babies since 1880) and Amayah (5,653 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ama, Amaiyah and Amaiah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ama (1,050), Amaiyah (1,017), Amaiah (872), Amay (444), Amahia (294), Amayiah (270), Amai (249), Ahmaya (231), Amayia (217), Amaiia (40), Aamaya (21), Amahya (21), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Amaya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 16 | #76 | #69 |
| Florida | 174 | #93 | #149 |
| Oregon | 34 | #93 | #184 |
| Nevada | 21 | #95 | #110 |
| California | 271 | #110 | #152 |
| Washington | 56 | #112 | #207 |
| Massachusetts | 45 | #115 | #177 |
| Connecticut | 24 | #121 | #228 |
| Arizona | 50 | #124 | #132 |
| New York | 117 | #141 | #162 |
| Idaho | 14 | #143 | #181 |
| Illinois | 69 | #143 | #207 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #150 | #161 |
| New Jersey | 49 | #164 | #156 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #170 | #137 |
| Colorado | 33 | #179 | #194 |
| Texas | 173 | #192 | #230 |
| Indiana | 35 | #197 | #511 |
| Nebraska | 11 | #203 | — |
| Virginia | 39 | #212 | #301 |
| Kentucky | 21 | #216 | #370 |
| Maryland | 23 | #225 | #248 |
| Pennsylvania | 49 | #229 | #243 |
| Georgia | 44 | #237 | #240 |
| Tennessee | 32 | #244 | #316 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | #247 | #251 |
| Iowa | 14 | #248 | — |
| Wisconsin | 21 | #253 | #246 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #255 | #331 |
| Utah | 17 | #260 | #237 |
| Ohio | 42 | #266 | #281 |
| West Virginia | 6 | #275 | — |
| Missouri | 22 | #278 | #344 |
| North Carolina | 39 | #282 | #269 |
| Minnesota | 19 | #286 | #278 |
| South Carolina | 17 | #294 | #238 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #303 | #316 |
| Michigan | 27 | #333 | #264 |
| Kansas | 9 | #362 | #301 |
| Alabama | 7 | #634 | #420 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,723 | #180 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,817 | #168 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,758 | #162 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,724 | #169 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,783 | #161 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,939 | #139 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2,063 | #133 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2,280 | #129 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,718 | #176 | 5 | #12,359 |
| 2016 | 1,590 | #204 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,528 | #214 | 5 | #12,186 |
| 2014 | 1,368 | #237 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,368 | #234 | 5 | #12,235 |
| 2012 | 1,477 | #212 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,486 | #209 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,395 | #226 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,598 | #202 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,679 | #199 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,699 | #201 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,594 | #215 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,513 | #226 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,619 | #209 | 7 | #8,967 |
| 2003 | 1,769 | #181 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,099 | #283 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,056 | #295 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,632 | #196 | — | — |
| 1999 | 704 | #398 | — | — |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1997 | 92 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,154 | — | — |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,617 | — | — |
| 1993 | 26 | #3,991 | — | — |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,729 | — | — |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,604 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,325 | — | — |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,554 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,134 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,354 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,770 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,042 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,424 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,471 | — | — |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,724 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,428 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,448 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,713 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,404 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,476 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,193 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,120 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,317 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).