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Amaya
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A female given name of Spanish and Basque origin, popularised in the 1990s.
"Amaya is a heroine in a 19th-century Spanish historical novel."
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Etymology
From the heroine of the Spanish novel Amaya o los vascos del siglo VIII (1877), explained as Basque amai ("the end").