Amaya is a variant of the Basque name Amaia. It was originally a surname and means ‘the end’.
Amaya is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Amaya isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Amaya ranks 171. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 11 were named Amaya. In the entire USA, approximately 37,177 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Amaya. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Amaya is a variant of the Basque name Amaia. It was originally a surname and means ‘the end’.
Amaya is also... a Japanese surname of unrelated origin. It translates to 'heavenly valley'.
Amaya is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Amaya cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #127 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2018. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Amaya, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Amaya seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Amaya was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
1,716 babies were named Amaya in 2022 - that's 1 in 86,382 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Amaya ranked 163 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With five letters, the name Amaya is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Amaya and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Amaya, you can simply say:
Apple
Mouse
Apple
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Amaya
Amaya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
M
A
Y
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
M
A
Y
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Amaya sounds like this:
