Amaaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-MY-a
- Origin
- Spanish
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Amaaya is a girls' name of Spanish origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
Where does Amaaya come from?
Spanish: spelling of Amaya; Spanish form of Basque Amaia; also a place name
Meaning borrowed from Amaya. More on Wiktionary.
Is Amaaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Amaaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Amaaya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 58% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Amaaya, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Amaaya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 696 girls in the UK were given Amaaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #84, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Amaaya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
Names like Amaaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Abeeha, Amira, Ayah, Safa, Khadija, Aaliyah, Ayra, Nusaybah, Alaya, Zainab, Hafsa, Ayla
Other spellings of Amaaya
Amaya, Amayah, Amiyah, Amaia, Amaiyah, Amaiya, Amiah, Amaiah
More Spanish names
Santiago, Lola, Xavier, Alaia, Diego, Rio, Cruz, Elian, Jesus, Ximena, Javier, Esmeralda, Reina, Cesar, Sierra, Paloma
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Amaaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amaaya, updated 20 October 2026.