Name meaning & stats
Amaya
Amaya means “night rain (Japanese), or end (Basque)” (Spanish origin). 43,547 US babies since 1940, peak 2018.
What it means
“night rain (Japanese), or end (Basque)”
SpanishWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2018
43,547 US babies were named Amaya between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Amaya (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 37% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2018)