Amaia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Amaia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Amaya, coined by Francisco Navarro Villoslada from Basque amai (“ending”).
- ESSpain1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 9K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Amaia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
15,344 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- SpanishAmaya(measured from records)
- Basqueamai“ending”(measured from records)
From Spanish Amaya, coined by Francisco Navarro Villoslada from Basque amai (“ending”).
Sources 2
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amaia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #501 | 15,344 | 1 in 3.3K | 15K | Amaia | 150 |
| US United States | — | 2,386 | 1 in 139K | 2.4K | Amaia | 136 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 449 | Amaia | 37 |
| PY Paraguay | #930 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Amaia | 6 |
| FR France | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 105K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | #674 | 540 | 1 in 6.3K | 540 | Amaia | 11 |
| GE Georgia | — | 87as ამაია | 1 in 46K | 87 | Amaia | 4 |
15,344 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amaya Arzuagab. 1970ESnot in their usual nameSpanish fashion designer
- Amaia Merinob. 1970ESSpanish actress
- Amaya Forchb. 1972CLnot in their usual nameChilean singer
- Amaia Monterob. 1976ESSpanish singer
- Amaya Valdemorob. 1976ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1976)
- Amaia Salamancab. 1986ESSpanish actress and model
- Amaya Coppensb. 1994BEnot in their usual nameBelgian-Nicaraguan activist
- Amaia Aberasturib. 1997ESSpanish actress, dancer and model
- Amaia Romerob. 1999ESSpanish singer and pianist
- Aamya Deva Kerolesb. 2009not in their usual nameactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15K | #421 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 15K | #228 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.4K | #6,659 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.2K | #1,019 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 547 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 540 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 537 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 449 | #304 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 44 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 44 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #6,659 |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2012 | 4 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Amaia a male or female name?
- Amaia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Amaia mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Amaya, coined by Francisco Navarro Villoslada from Basque amai (“ending”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Amaia?
- In the etymology graph, Amiyah is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Amaia have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Amaia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amaia.
- Where is Amaia most common?
- Amaia is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Amaia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 15,344 people named Amaia, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Amaia compared with other names?
- In Spain, Amaia is the 501st most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amaiaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amaia” — the 501st most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.