Amaya
#180 for girls in 2025, 1,723 births · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #12,246
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 2,280 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 43,525since 1972
Amaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Amaya has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #180 | 1,723 | — | |
| 2024 | #168 | 1,817 | — | |
| 2023 | #162 | 1,758 | — | |
| 2022 | #169 | 1,724 | — | |
| 2021 | #161 | 1,783 | — | |
| 2020 | #139 | 1,939 | — | |
| 2019 | #133 | 2,063 | — | |
| 2018 | #129 | 2,280 | — | |
| 2017 | #176 | 1,718 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #204 | 1,590 | — | |
| 2015 | #214 | 1,528 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #237 | 1,368 | — | |
| 2013 | #234 | 1,368 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #212 | 1,477 | — | |
| 2011 | #209 | 1,486 | — | |
| 2010 | #226 | 1,395 | — | |
| 2009 | #202 | 1,598 | — | |
| 2008 | #199 | 1,679 | — | |
| 2007 | #201 | 1,699 | — | |
| 2006 | #215 | 1,594 | — | |
| 2005 | #226 | 1,513 | — | |
| 2004 | #209 | 1,619 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #181 | 1,769 | — | |
| 2002 | #283 | 1,099 | — | |
| 2001 | #295 | 1,056 | — | |
| 2000 | #196 | 1,632 | — | |
| 1999 | #398 | 704 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,458 | 117 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,696 | 92 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,207 | 61 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,152 | 36 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,987 | 26 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | — | |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | — | |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | — | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amaya! It came in at #8,292, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Amaya is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#158 · 1 in 743
- Maryland#160 · 1 in 742
- Louisiana#162 · 1 in 708
- Georgia#198 · 1 in 968
- New Mexico#208 · 1 in 757
Best ever in a state: #22 in New Mexico, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | #158 | 48 | 1 in 743 |
| Maryland | #160 | 32 | 1 in 742 |
| Louisiana | #162 | 29 | 1 in 708 |
| Georgia | #198 | 50 | 1 in 968 |
| New Mexico | #208 | 11 | 1 in 757 |
| Florida | #210 | 72 | 1 in 1,070 |
| Hawaii | #216 | 5 | 1 in 652 |
| Idaho | #221 | 8 | 1 in 777 |
| Mississippi | #223 | 12 | 1 in 943 |
| Alabama | #224 | 19 | 1 in 1,026 |
| Connecticut | #228 | 13 | 1 in 1,126 |
| Kansas | #228 | 15 | 1 in 897 |
| Washington | #228 | 28 | 1 in 1,015 |
| North Carolina | #248 | 36 | 1 in 1,207 |
| South Carolina | #253 | 15 | 1 in 1,100 |
| New York | #264 | 69 | 1 in 1,404 |
| Arizona | #267 | 28 | 1 in 1,159 |
| California | #269 | 161 | 1 in 1,383 |
| Tennessee | #269 | 23 | 1 in 1,305 |
| Illinois | #287 | 46 | 1 in 1,493 |
| West Virginia | #303 | 5 | 1 in 1,428 |
| Wisconsin | #303 | 17 | 1 in 1,463 |
| Oregon | #311 | 12 | 1 in 1,336 |
| Michigan | #313 | 28 | 1 in 1,742 |
| Texas | #317 | 93 | 1 in 1,677 |
| Minnesota | #321 | 16 | 1 in 1,587 |
| Indiana | #322 | 19 | 1 in 1,699 |
| New Jersey | #327 | 22 | 1 in 1,873 |
| Massachusetts | #352 | 15 | 1 in 2,045 |
| Missouri | #352 | 15 | 1 in 1,861 |
| Pennsylvania | #356 | 28 | 1 in 1,973 |
| Ohio | #363 | 28 | 1 in 2,079 |
| Nebraska | #374 | 5 | 1 in 1,660 |
| Arkansas | #379 | 7 | 1 in 1,690 |
| Iowa | #389 | 7 | 1 in 1,928 |
| Colorado | #402 | 13 | 1 in 1,911 |
| Kentucky | #412 | 8 | 1 in 2,410 |
| Oklahoma | #443 | 8 | 1 in 2,076 |
| Nevada | #475 | 5 | 1 in 2,040 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Amaya
- 12 spots since 2024 (#168 → #180)
- 41 spots since 2020 (#139 → #180)
- 34 spots since 2015 (#214 → #180)
- Biggest jump: 1,060 spots in 1999 (#1,458 → #398)
- Biggest drop: 99 spots in 2001 (#196 → #295)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2018 at #129 (2,280 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- Highest: 1 in 746 girls born in 2018 were named Amaya (0.13%)
- Latest: 1 in 933 girls born in 2025 (0.11%)
- 37.4% of all girls named Amaya (16,273) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 40 | #6,385 (1978) | #7,840 |
| 1980s | 104 | #4,716 (1982) | #6,714 |
| 1990s | 1,106 | #398 (1999) | #3,612 |
| 2000s | 15,258 | #181 (2003) | #221 |
| 2010s | 16,273 | #129 (2018) | #197 |
| 2020s | 10,744 | #139 (2020) | #163 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amaya in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 1,635 of them was named Amaya, which outranked 98.4% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.