Amaya

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Amaia in PY Paraguay, UY Uruguay, NO Norway and 2 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 3 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◐

Amaya is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname166K records spelled Amaya19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Peru, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written A'Maya, A’Maya, Ämäyä, Amayà, Amaya️

• a separate surname19K records spelled Amaya3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

  Also written A-Maya, Amáyá

• Russian surname1.2K records spelled Amaya16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Spain, Peru

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Амая, Амайя, Amaia, Амаия, Amaiia

• Italian surname842 records spelled Amaya2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Philippines

  Also written Ämäyä

66 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.

Other recorded senses●

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 name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Aymara, Hi;<J muy querido

  as a word·Vocabulario de la lengua aymara

• In Aymara, Perccofo, muerto*

  as a word·Vocabulario de la lengua aymara

• In Aymara, Cuierpo muerto

  as a word·Vocabulario 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.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 123 years between 1902–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 829 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Amaya?

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

In which country does Amaya have the most bearers?

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

How common is Amaya compared with other names?

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

What does the name Amaya mean?

Recorded meaning: A female given name from Spanish borrowed from Spanish in the 1990s.