girls:
40k births since 1972
#678 (88th percentile)
boys:
22 births since 2004
#4564 (0th percentile)
overall:
40k births since 1972
#1240 (84th percentile)
The name Amaya is the #1,240 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 39,972 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 84.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #678 (88.1% percentile) for all time with 39,950 births since 1972. For boys, it ranks #4,564 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 2004.
Amaya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for girls and 2004 for boys). Birth data for Amaya is available in 50 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023 (50 years for girls and 4 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Amaya has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Amaya reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 86.7% percentile (ranked #129) with 1,224 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 1,224 births per million (ranked 86.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Amaya ranks #157 for girls (83.5% percentile) with 1,000 births per million, which is 81.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Amaya reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #845) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Amaya".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Amaya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.6% confident that Amaya is pronounced as uh-MAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-MAH-yuh, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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