Amaia
Where Amaia comes from
Amaia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1986Amaia Salamanca bornSpanish actress and model
- 1993First appearance#11,780 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1999Amaia bornSpanish singer and pianist
- 2025Peak, #554547 babies named Amaia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Amaia · Spanish singer and pianist, born 1999
- Amaia Salamanca · Spanish actress and model, born 1986
- Amaia Montero · Spanish singer, born 1976
- Amaia Aberasturi · Spanish actress, dancer and model, born 1997
- Amaia Zubiria · Basque singer, born 1947
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.