Amaia

Meaning: The end
Origin: Basque

Girl's name · #555 in the US (2025) · Trending

Popularity over time

Amaia is climbing: on the charts since 1993, it reached #555 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 550 girls given the name last year. Roughly 5,500 have carried it all-time.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 25 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#23 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #57 in New Zealand (2025) · #100 in Ecuador (2025) · #461 in Mexico (2024) · #494 in France (2025) · #550 in Scotland (2025) · #668 in Switzerland (2025) · #901 in Ireland (2025) · #1,081 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,200 in Sweden (2025) · #1,301 in Belgium (2025) · #1,113 in Canada (2024).

Famous Amaias

Amaia — Spanish singer and pianist
Amaia Salamanca — Spanish actress and model
Amaia Montero — Spanish singer
Amaia Aberasturi — Spanish actress, dancer and model
Amaia Zubiria — Basque singer (born 1947)

In stories & tradition

Amaia Lapitz^eu — Fictional character of Katixa Agirre's books in Basque
Amaia Ezpeldoi^eu — Fictional detective in the Basque language novels by Itxaro Borda
Amaia — Amaia. Basques in VIII. century (comics)

What Amaias become

Among 117 notable people named Amaia:

Entertainers appear 1.65× more often than among typical names — e.g. Amaia, Spanish singer and pianist.

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Amaya (#180) and Amayah (#841), Amaia would rank around #102 with about 2,600 births last year — the newborns split about 67/21/12 across Amaya, Amaia, and Amayah.

Similar names: Amaya · Solana · Amariah · Maia · Rosalina · Amora

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