Amaya

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Amaya: Recorded every year since 1997, its highest recorded position is #104, and it stood at #273 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
51times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#104highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2411
1998	#2701
1999	#3225
2000	#1475
2001	#1305
2002	#1192
2003	#1083
2004	#948
2005	#851
2006	#639
2007	#544
2008	#464
2009	#379
2010	#334
2011	#255
2012	#238
2013	#198
2014	#220
2015	#165
2016	#159
2017	#137
2018	#123
2019	#113
2020	#107
2021	#119
2022	#127
2023	#115
2024	#104

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 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #104 among girls in England and Wales, #288 among girls in Northern Ireland, #315 among girls in Scotland, #320 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2411 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #104 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #273 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Amaya appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 5,613 births with the name.

Amaya 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.

Amaya'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	#2411 (1997)	#104 (2024)	#104 (2024)	28 of 28	5,613 (1997–2024)	473 (2020)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2008)	#273 (2018)	#288 (2024)	7 of 17	31 (2008–2024)	6 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#910 (2010)	#273 (2025)	#273 (2025)	15 of 16	98 (2010–2025)	15 (2025)

Amaya 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 Amaya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	15	3 of 10	5
2000s	441	10 of 10	44
2010s	2,997	10 of 10	300
2020sbusiest	2,160	5 of 10	432

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 432 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2014 and 2015, when recorded births rose by 99, from 233 to 332.

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

Amaya 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 4 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #104 in England and Wales in 2024.

Amaya'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	#104	446	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#115	423	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#127	395	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#119	423	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#107	473	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#113	458	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#123	435	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#137	393	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#159	349	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#165	332	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#220	233	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#198	256	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#238	210	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#255	191	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#334	140	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#379	111	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#464	87	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#544	68	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#639	50	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#851	33	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#948	27	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1083	21	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1192	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1305	15	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1475	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#288	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#302	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#305	5	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#336	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#273	6	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#273	15	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#320	12	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#444	8	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#430	9	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#532	7	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#584	6	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#315	11	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #104, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 473 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 27 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.

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Amayah · #306, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Ayaan · #104, 27y
Seren · #104, 30y
Caiden · #103, 29y
Esmae · #102, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Alesha · #104, 29y
Ayaan · #104, 27y
Seren · #104, 30y
Caiden · #103, 29y

Amaya was ranked #104 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. 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.

Amaya 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 Amaya without appearing here.

Amaya moved ahead of

Gail Compare
In 1999 they stood at #3225 and #2770 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1475 and #3912.
Karin Compare
In 1999 they stood at #3225 and #1557 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1475 and #3912.
Cheryl Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1475 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1305 and #3262.
Cian Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3225 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1305 and #3262.

Moved ahead of Amaya

Ivy Compare
In 2011 they stood at #798 and #937 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #677 and #371.
Mila Compare
In 2011 they stood at #255 and #261 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #238 and #160.
Wendy Compare
In 2021 they stood at #444 and #834 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #559 and #502.
Harper Compare
In 2012 they stood at #238 and #284 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #198 and #160.

Moved the opposite way to Amaya

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaya went from #2411 to #104 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaya went from #2411 to #104 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaya went from #2411 to #104 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaya went from #2411 to #104 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Amaya

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaya went from #2411 to #104 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaya went from #2411 to #104 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaya went from #2411 to #104 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Amaya went from #2411 to #104 and Amalie from #3824 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 4 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #104 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Amaya

Amaya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Amaya across 3 official records

Amaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Amaya appears in

Popularity data

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Amaya across 3 official records

Amaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Amaya

Amaya and the names beside it

Amaya moved ahead of

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