Amaya is a moderately popular girls' name in United States, ranking #170 in 2022 with 1,723 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 2018 with 2,277 births ranking #130. Since 1996, the popularity has increased by 2,724.6%. In 2022, approximately 1 in every 951 girls 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.