Amaia

Gender:
Origin: Europe, Spanish
27 famous people named Amaia found on Wikipedia.
2154 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 768-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 768-th in year 2018
Used in: Basque, Spanish

Meanings

Amaya is a given name and surname of Spanish origins, derived from the village of Amaya and its neighboring mountain in Castile and León, Spain. The name of the village, in turn, has Indo-European roots and means "am (ma)" or "mother". The suffix io-ia is also used to form action names or toponyms, implying that the meaning of Amaya or Amaia is "mother city", as it will be called later, "the capital". Other hypothesis is that the name derived from the Proto-Basque or Basque word Amaia, meaning "the end". Variations include Amaia, Amayah, Ammaya, and Amya.
Amaya was one of the main villages of the Cantabri celtic tribes, and played a key role in the Cantabrian wars during the Roman conquest of Hispania, and later, during the Visigothic Kingdom, as the capital of the Duchy of Cantabria. In the first stages of the Reconquista, the city was part of the repopulating efforts of the Kingdom of Asturias in the border region of Bardulia, the primitive territories of Castile.
A Japanese surname Amaya of unrelated origin also exists, "usually written with characters meaning 'heavenly valley'".

Basque origin: the end, resolution, high place. There is also a village and mountain in Spain called Amaia.

Famous People: 27 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Amaia Salamanca 1986 Spanish actress, born 1986
2 Amaia Montero 1976 Spanish singer
3 Amaia del Campo Berasategi 1966 Spanish politician
4 Amaia Cía Abascal 1970
5 Amaia Cayero
6 Amaia Agirre 1977
7 Amaia Olabarrieta 1982 Footballer
8 Amaia Piedra 1972 Spanish distance runner
9 Amaia Andrés 1966 Spanish female middle-distance runner
10 Amaia Ugartamendía 1966 Spanish handball player
11 Amaia Zubiria 1947 Basque singer
12 Amaia Erbina 1997
13 Amaia Uribe 1985
14 Amaia Osaba 1975
15 Amaia López de Munain 1972
16 Amaia Lasa 1959 Actress
17 Amaia Riouspeyrous 1984
18 Amaia Lanbarri 1992 Spanish association football player
19 Amaia Otamendi 1972
20 Amaia Ruiz 1986
21 Amaia González de Garibay 1994 Spanish handball player
22 Amaia Espinosa 1956
23 Amaia Jauregizar 1985
24 Amaia Lizarralde 1966
25 Amaia Garbaio
26 Amaia Intza 1974
27 Amaia Merino 1970