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Amaiah

Gender
Girl
Say it
a-MY-a
Origin
Spanish
UK rank, 2025
#3,776 for girls
US rank, 2025
#2,645 for girls

Amaiah is a girls' name of Spanish origin, meaning “the end”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies) and 2,645th for girls in the US (65 babies).

What does Amaiah mean?

Spanish: spelling of Amaia; Basque name

“the end”

Popularised by Navarro Villoslada's 19th-century novel Amaya, set among the early Basques.

Meaning borrowed from Amaia.

Is Amaiah a girl's or a boy's name?

Amaiah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK and 65 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Amaiah in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#3,776among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 46,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 8% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Amaiah, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 9 girls.

In 2025, 696 girls in the UK were given Amaiah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #84, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.

2008Busiest: 9 in 20192025
Amaiah in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#3,776
20247#3,381
20230–
20224#4,870
20210–
20203#5,734
20199#2,792
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20140–
20134#4,953
20123#6,108
20110–
20100–
20090–
20083#5,772

How popular is Amaiah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#2,645among girls
Babies in 2025
65about 1 in 25,000 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 27% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 65 girls in the US were named Amaiah, making it the 2,645th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,399th. It first appears in the records in 2000.

2025 had the most girls named Amaiah of any year since it first appeared, in 2000.

Half of all the girls named Amaiah in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 3,411 girls in the US were given Amaiah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #87, up from #2,645 for this spelling alone.

2000Busiest: 65 in 20252025
Amaiah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202565#2,645
202449#3,225
202346#3,428
202261#2,792
202153#3,069
202045#3,399
201937#3,922
201844#3,496
201739#3,847
201647#3,379
201527#4,979
201420#6,205
201327#5,011
201224#5,555
201128#4,913
201037#4,022
200944#3,618
200838#4,088
200732#4,566
200625#5,382
200515#7,495
200416#7,072
200313#7,993
200213#7,810
200116#6,614
200011#8,527

Names like Amaiah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Amaiah

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Amaiah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amaiah, updated 20 October 2026.