Amaya Girl
How popular is Amaya?
#180 girl name in 2025
1,723 baby girls were named Amaya in the US in 2025, making it the 180th most popular girl name.
Amaya popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #180 for girls (▼ 12 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,723 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+13% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #214 in 2015, #139 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2018 (2,280 girls) |
| Highest rank | #129 in 2018 |
| First recorded | 1972 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Amaya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Amaya family of names ranked #124 for girls in 2025 (#122 the year before), with 2,665 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Amaya is most popular
Babies named Amaya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Mexico: 4.5 per 1,000 (109 girls)
- Hawaii: 3.1 per 1,000 (36 girls)
- Rhode Island: 2.8 per 1,000 (35 girls)
- Nevada: 2.5 per 1,000 (115 girls)
- Idaho: 2.1 per 1,000 (71 girls)
Amaya by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 40 | #6,384 |
| 1980s | 104 | #4,714 |
| 1990s | 1,106 | #398 |
| 2000s | 15,258 | #181 |
| 2010s | 16,273 | #129 |
| 2020s | 10,744 | #139 |
Girl names about as popular as Amaya
Questions
- Is Amaya a boy or girl name?
- Amaya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Amaya were girls.
- How popular is the name Amaya?
- 1,723 baby girls were named Amaya in the US in 2025, making it the 180th most popular girl name.
- When was Amaya most popular?
- Amaya peaked in 2018, when 2,280 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #129 in 2018.
- How many people are named Amaya?
- 43,547 babies have been named Amaya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 43,264 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 13.
- Where is Amaya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Amaya was most common in New Mexico, at 4.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.