Amaya
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Amaya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 23rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: A female given name from Spanish borrowed from Spanish in the 1990s.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 163(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 251
- COColombia≈1 in 773
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 388 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 163 (inferred from the name graph)
≈64,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
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)
- Spanishborrowed(measured from records)
- Spanishin(measured from records)
A female given name from Spanish borrowed from Spanish in the 1990s.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amaya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #112 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 773 | 39 | Amaya | 163 |
| SV El Salvador | #27 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 163 | — | Amaya | 90 |
| HN Honduras | #23 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 251 | — | Amaya | 70 |
| US United States | — | 33,218 | 1 in 10K | 36K | Amaya | 388 |
| AR Argentina | #225 | 30,531 | 1 in 1.5K | 31K | Amaya | 110 |
| VE Venezuela | #265 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Amaya | 59 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Amaya is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Amaia: im Baskenland und im übrigen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Aymara, Hi;<J muy querido
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
In Aymara, Perccofo, muerto*
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
In Aymara, Cuierpo muerto
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carmen Amayab. 1918ESSpanish flamenco dancer and singer
- Mario Amayab. 1933USAmerican art critic (1933–1986)
- La Chungab. 1938FRnot in their usual nameSpanish artist (1938–2025)
- Remedios Amayab. 1962ESSpanish singer
- Antonio Carmonab. 1965ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Ashraf Amayab. 1971USAmerican basketball player (born 1971)
- Rafael Amayab. 1977MXMexican actor
- Daisuke Amayab. 1977JPJapanese independent game developer
- Sohichiro Amayab. 1983JPbaseball player
- Robert AmayaUSAmerican actor
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 95 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 36K | #949 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 33K | #1,057 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 31K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 22K | #1,473 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 39 | #77 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Amaya mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Spanish borrowed from Spanish in the 1990s. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Amaya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 64 thousand people named Amaya in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amaya.
- How common is the name Amaya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 33,218 people named Amaya in 2010, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Amaya compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Amaya is the 112th most common surname of 144,306 surnames 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/amayaThe 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, “Amaya” — the 112th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.