Amaia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Amaia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Amaia: Recorded every year since 1999, its highest recorded position is #51, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#51highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2000	#3247
2001	#3262
2002	#4137
2003	#3099
2004	#3197
2005	#3382
2006	#2320
2007	#4294
2008	#1641
2009	#2326
2010	#1472
2011	#1295
2012	#1525
2013	#1864
2014	#1341
2015	#1279
2016	#1031
2017	#1184
2018	#791
2019	#955
2020	#916
2021	#801
2022	#683
2023	#706
2024	#776

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1999 to 2024.

In 2024: #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #776 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1999–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3900 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2017–2023
Highest recorded position: #51 among girls in New Zealand, in 2023 (recorded 2017–2023).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Amaia appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 582 births with the name.

Amaia across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Amaia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#683 (2022)	#776 (2024)	26 of 26	582 (1999–2024)	54 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#937 (2011)	#631 (2024)	#885 (2025)	8 of 15	27 (2011–2025)	5 (2024)
New Zealand · Girls	#87 (2017)	#51 (2023)	#51 (2023)	6 of 7	349 (2017–2023)	67 (2022)

Amaia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Amaia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	65	10 of 10	7
2010s	277	10 of 10	28
2020sbusiest	237	5 of 10	47

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 47 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Amaia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #51 in New Zealand in 2023.

Amaia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#776	48	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#706	51	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#683	54	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#801	45	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#916	39	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#955	37	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#791	48	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1184	29	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1031	34	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1279	26	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1341	24	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1864	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1525	20	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1295	24	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1472	20	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2326	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1641	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2320	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
2023	New Zealand	female	#51	66	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	female	#58	67	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	female	#63	63	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	female	#63	59	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	female	#79	49	High	Verified
2017	New Zealand	female	#87	45	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1999 and 2025, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #51, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 6 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 67 births, registered in New Zealand in 2022.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 18 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Amadeus · #2320, 16y
Amadou · #1771, 22y
Amaira · #855, 17y
Amairah · #1452, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cadhla · #53, 28y
Aoibhe · #55, 31y
Lauryn · #45, 28y
Indiana · #63, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Gracie · #51, 30y
Seth · #51, 30y
Storm · #50, 30y
Cadhla · #53, 28y

Amaia was ranked #51 in New Zealand · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Amaia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Amaia without appearing here.

Amaia moved ahead of

Kai Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2326 and #2326 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1472 and #5707.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4294 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1472 and #5707.
Dianne Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4294 and #4294 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1641 and #5545.
Gail Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4294 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1641 and #5545.

Moved ahead of Amaia

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #955 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #916 and #460.

Moved the opposite way to Amaia

Abigail Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaia went from #3900 to #776 while Abigail went from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaia went from #3900 to #776 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaia went from #3900 to #776 while Aisling went from #410 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaia went from #3900 to #776 while Alex went from #204 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Amaia

Ada Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaia went from #3900 to #776 and Ada from #2189 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaia went from #3900 to #776 and Alma from #3225 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaia went from #3900 to #776 and Alyssa from #483 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaia went from #3900 to #776 and Amalie from #2770 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #51 in New Zealand in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Amaia

Amaia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Amaia across 3 official records

Amaia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Amaia appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Amaia at a glance

Amaia across 3 official records

Amaia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Amaia appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Amaia

Amaia and the names beside it

Amaia moved ahead of

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