Amaya (meaning and origin)

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Amaya

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Meaning and origin
Amaya is a Japanese girl name. The meaning of the name is `Night Rain`.

Where is it used?
The name Amaya is mainly used in Japanese.

What Amaya`s say about their name

The best thing about the name Amaya:
short and sweet
The worst thing about the name:

If my name wasn`t Amaya....:

Extra information:

More `Amaya` links
Amaya as abbreviation
Actors named Amaya
Amaya in the encyclopedia

Statistics for Amaya

Amaya appears in 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 200.. 2003 was a `top year` for the name Amaya. (Based on 128 years of name history) In that year it ranked #181. The last time Amaya appeared among the most common names was in 1999. Our records go back to 1880

Year	Rank	Rank
2007	200
2006	215
2005	225
2004	208
2003	181
2002	282
2001	294
2000	196
1999	398
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See also the US top 1000 names 2007

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Comments on Amaya

Baldemar L. Amaya
Amaya is a Spanish or Portugese name with a coat of arms, over eight hundred years old, recorded in the French Heraldic Archives. It is a name that is also found in every country in the world. El Cid - Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, King of Valencia, Spain in 1095, whose mother's family was a powerful member of the landed Castillian landowners aristocracy also had the Amaya name. His mother's name was Teresa Nunez de Amaya.
Yajaira
I wanted to give our 1st daughter a name that was different, but not as unique as mine. Amaya was perfect. Also the only name my husband and I could agree on. :)
amaya
i am mexican, and my parents heritage is spanish. My dad's side of the family comes from the vasque country. amaya is a vasque name wich originally is written with an i instead of y because in vasque the y doesnt exist. amaia is the right name, and it means the beginning of the end. in spanich it is a surname as well.
julian
Exquisite name with soft rhythm and gentle flow

Only for Amayas!