Maia

Where Maia comes from

From Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa).
— Wiktionary's entry for Maia
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1950
    First appearance
    #4,738 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1961
    Maia Chiburdanidze born
    Georgian chess grandmaster
  3. 1972
    Maia Sandu born
    President of Moldova since 2020
  4. 2022
    Peak, #420
    752 babies named Maia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
  • A female given name from Latin, of recent usage.
  • A female given name, variant of Maya.
Namesakes
  • Maia Sandu · President of Moldova since 2020, born 1972
  • Maia Chiburdanidze · Georgian chess grandmaster, born 1961
  • Maia Mitchell · Australian actress, born 1993
  • Maia Morgenstern · Romanian actress, born 1962
  • Maia Reficco · American actress, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.