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Amaia

#555 in 2025Girls' name

Ending

Amaia has been given to 5,499 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #555 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 547 recorded.

Babies named Amaia, 2025

1 in 6,060

Amaia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amaia: meaning, origin, and history

Ending

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amaia means

Amaia means “ending”, associated with amai.

Origin, language, and formation

Amaia is used in Basque.

Amaia comes through Spanish Amaya and Basque amai.

Amaia is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Amaia is pronounced /amai̯a/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,499 girls were recorded with the name Amaia between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 547 in 2025; its best national rank was #555 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #565 in 2020 to #555 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,417 in 2015 to #555 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Amaia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,060
547 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,940
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#555
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,202 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amaia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,202 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amaia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amaias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amaia was born before 2020 — so the typical Amaia is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,499
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 54.1% of all recorded uses (2,974).

Is Amaia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+46
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+10
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+862
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.36×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (547)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#555
2025

Spellings of Amaia

Amaia is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 24.9% against Amaia's 0.17%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Amaia is used

Across 2016–2025, Amaia was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 1,099 girls, against 1 in 3,326 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

291 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Rhode Island1 in 1,099
  2. 2Florida1 in 1,190
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 1,408
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 1,613
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 1,639
  6. 6New York1 in 1,695
  7. 7Nevada1 in 2,857
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 2,857

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Amaia is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 95% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Amaia around the world

Where Amaia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #1,079
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1972–2025
    #494
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #1,109
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Amaia

People whose public names include Amaia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Amaia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Amaia. Linked forms have their own page here.

Amaya

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Amaia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#555
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 10
Best rank ever
#555
2025
Peak year
2025
547 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,499
Count in 2025
547

Names similar to Amaia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Amaia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Amaia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Amaia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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