Meaning and history
The name means “the end” in Basque. It is also the name of a character in the historical novel Amaya, or the Basques in the 8th century (1879) by Francisco Navarro-Villoslada, known as Amaya in the Spanish original and Amaia in the Basque translation.
20062006: 71 births, rank #2,555
2007: 74 births, rank #2,509
2008: 83 births, rank #2,334
2009: 100 births, rank #2,041
2010: 80 births, rank #2,360
20112011: 101 births, rank #1,953
2012: 92 births, rank #2,078
2013: 93 births, rank #2,064
2014: 95 births, rank #2,049
2015: 163 births, rank #1,416
20162016: 189 births, rank #1,278
2017: 252 births, rank #1,027
2018: 354 births, rank #770
2019: 367 births, rank #763
2020: 521 births, rank #565
20212021: 462 births, rank #643
2022: 470 births, rank #628
2023: 473 births, rank #627
2024: 501 births, rank #601
20252025: 547 births, rank #554
Amaia rose from #601 to #555 for girls between 2024 and 2025. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 547.