Amaya is a distinctive boys' name in United States, ranking #12355 in 2017 with 5 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 2004 with 7 births ranking #8966. In 2017, approximately 1 in every 370,063 boys born was named Amaya. STABLE Recent data shows the name is currently stable.
Amaya is usually treated as a variant of Amaia. Through that Basque root, it is linked with the meaning the end, though in modern use many parents mainly encounter it as a melodic international favourite.
The form Amaia has literary roots in a 19th-century novel, while Amaya became the more familiar spelling for many English-speaking families. Its rise in the United States was helped by modern media exposure in the late 1990s.