Amaya
#180 for girls in 2025, 1,723 births · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #12,246
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 2,280 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 43,525since 1972
Amaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Amaya has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #180 | 1,723 | — | |
| 2024 | #168 | 1,817 | — | |
| 2023 | #162 | 1,758 | — | |
| 2022 | #169 | 1,724 | — | |
| 2021 | #161 | 1,783 | — | |
| 2020 | #139 | 1,939 | — | |
| 2019 | #133 | 2,063 | — | |
| 2018 | #129 | 2,280 | — | |
| 2017 | #176 | 1,718 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #204 | 1,590 | — | |
| 2015 | #214 | 1,528 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #237 | 1,368 | — | |
| 2013 | #234 | 1,368 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #212 | 1,477 | — | |
| 2011 | #209 | 1,486 | — | |
| 2010 | #226 | 1,395 | — | |
| 2009 | #202 | 1,598 | — | |
| 2008 | #199 | 1,679 | — | |
| 2007 | #201 | 1,699 | — | |
| 2006 | #215 | 1,594 | — | |
| 2005 | #226 | 1,513 | — | |
| 2004 | #209 | 1,619 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #181 | 1,769 | — | |
| 2002 | #283 | 1,099 | — | |
| 2001 | #295 | 1,056 | — | |
| 2000 | #196 | 1,632 | — | |
| 1999 | #398 | 704 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,458 | 117 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,696 | 92 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,207 | 61 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,152 | 36 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,987 | 26 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | — | |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | — | |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | — | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amaya! It came in at #8,292, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Amaya
- 12 spots since 2024 (#168 → #180)
- 41 spots since 2020 (#139 → #180)
- 34 spots since 2015 (#214 → #180)
- Biggest jump: 1,060 spots in 1999 (#1,458 → #398)
- Biggest drop: 99 spots in 2001 (#196 → #295)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2018 at #129 (2,280 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- Highest: 1 in 746 girls born in 2018 were named Amaya (0.13%)
- Latest: 1 in 933 girls born in 2025 (0.11%)
- 37.4% of all girls named Amaya (16,273) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 40 | #6,385 (1978) | #7,840 |
| 1980s | 104 | #4,716 (1982) | #6,714 |
| 1990s | 1,106 | #398 (1999) | #3,612 |
| 2000s | 15,258 | #181 (2003) | #221 |
| 2010s | 16,273 | #129 (2018) | #197 |
| 2020s | 10,744 | #139 (2020) | #163 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amaya in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 1,134 of them was named Amaya, which outranked 98.9% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 283,568 of them was named Amaya, which outranked 32.5% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,143Zorion8
- #8,143Zyere8
- #8,143Zyrion8
- #8,927Amaya7
- #8,927Aasim7
- #8,927Aayan7
- #8,927Abdinasir7
- #9,948Aadon6
- #9,948Aalim6
- #9,948Aamari6
Tied with 1,020 names at #8,927; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.