# Amaya vs Amy

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Amaya
*name · frequency rank #48,053*
A female given name from Spanish borrowed from Spanish in the 1990s.

### Amy
*name · IPA /ˈeɪ.mi/ · frequency rank #5,098*
A female given name from Latin.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amaya-vs-amy