Amaya

Where Amaya comes from

Heroine of a Spanish historical novel Amaya o los vascos del siglo VIII (1877) by F. Navarro Villoslada, explained as Basque amai (“the end”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Amaya
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1972
    First appearance
    #8,292 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Amaya Valdemoro born
    Spanish basketball player
  3. 1994
    Amaya Coppens born
    Belgian-Nicaraguan activist
  4. 2018
    Peak, #129
    2,280 babies named Amaya — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish borrowed from Spanish in the 1990s.
Namesakes
  • Amaya Valdemoro · Spanish basketball player, born 1976
  • Amaya Coppens · Belgian-Nicaraguan activist, born 1994
  • Amaya Arzuaga · Spanish fashion designer, born 1970
  • Amaya Gastaminza · Spanish basketball player, born 1991
  • Amaya Salazar · Dominican Republic artist, born 1951

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.