Entry № 493 · Basque origin

Amaia Amaia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-MIE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Basque
Meaning
"The end, mountain peak"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Basque)

A name that means "the end, mountain peak".

Amaia is a Basque name meaning "the end" — also "mountain peak" in some Basque dialects. The novel Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII (1879) by Francisco Navarro Villoslada is a Basque historical romance.

Amaia is widely used in the Basque Country.

Mountain peak. The Basque endpoint.

The name in its native script.

Amaia
Transliteration
Amaia
Pronunciation
/ əˈmaɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amaia stands.

Amaia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Amaias before her.

Real people
Amaia Salamanca
Spanish actress.
born 1986
In fiction
Amaia
Heroine of Navarro Villoslada's novel.
1879 Basque novel

Names connected to Amaia.

The number behind Amaia.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amaia reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.