Amaya

Amaya is the 949th most common surname in the United States, shared by 36,144 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,270.

By the numbers

People: 36,144
Rank: 949th
How common: 1 in 8,270
Per 100,000: 12.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Amaya described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 94.4%
White, not Hispanic 4.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Amaya

Carmen Amaya (1918–1963)Spanish flamenco dancer and singer
Remedios Amaya (born 1962)Spanish singer
Rafael Amaya (born 1977)Mexican actor
Frankie Amaya (born 2000)American soccer player
Ashraf Amaya (born 1971)American basketball player
Victor Amaya (born 1954)US tennis player

People named Amaya with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Amaya

Also a first name

Amaya has been given to 43,547 American babies as a first name since 1972, peaking in 2018. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.