Amaia

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Amaya in SV El Salvador, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 20 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Amaia is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Indonesian given name750 records spelled Amaia3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Ämäïä

• a separate given name373 records spelled Amaia3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States

  Also written Amaiä, Amaïa

• Polish given name282 records spelled Amaia2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Spain, Peru

  Also written Amaïa

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 40 years between 1938–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 363 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Amaia?

We estimate roughly 84 thousand people bear Amaia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Amaia have the most bearers?

Amaia is most frequently recorded in El Salvador, where it is most often spelled amaya.

How common is Amaia compared with other names?

In El Salvador, Amaia is the 26th most common surname of 33,533 surnames recorded there.

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?

Recorded meaning: From Spanish Amaya, coined by Francisco Navarro Villoslada from Basque amai (“ending”).