Maia
#433 for girls in 2025, 715 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 752 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 18,200since 1950
Maia over time
Rank among girls' names. Maia has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #433 | 715 |
| 2024 | #460 | 682 |
| 2023 | #459 | 672 |
| 2022 | #420 | 752 |
| 2021 | #435 | 724 |
| 2020 | #497 | 616 |
| 2019 | #525 | 587 |
| 2018 | #502 | 620 |
| 2017 | #488 | 639 |
| 2016 | #570 | 545 |
| 2015 | #552 | 562 |
| 2014 | #627 | 456 |
| 2013 | #640 | 440 |
| 2012 | #719 | 386 |
| 2011 | #680 | 413 |
| 2010 | #620 | 475 |
| 2009 | #588 | 512 |
| 2008 | #634 | 487 |
| 2007 | #611 | 492 |
| 2006 | #508 | 598 |
| 2005 | #523 | 558 |
| 2004 | #558 | 512 |
| 2003 | #562 | 494 |
| 2002 | #535 | 512 |
| 2001 | #602 | 417 |
| 2000 | #549 | 475 |
| 1999 | #587 | 420 |
| 1998 | #537 | 466 |
| 1997 | #667 | 327 |
| 1996 | #823 | 245 |
| 1995 | #1,023 | 178 |
| 1994 | #1,269 | 134 |
| 1993 | #1,308 | 129 |
| 1992 | #1,402 | 117 |
| 1991 | #1,599 | 95 |
| 1990 | #1,847 | 77 |
| 1989 | #1,651 | 83 |
| 1988 | #1,686 | 76 |
| 1987 | #1,630 | 75 |
| 1986 | #1,669 | 70 |
| 1985 | #1,473 | 84 |
| 1984 | #1,991 | 51 |
| 1983 | #1,927 | 53 |
| 1982 | #1,786 | 61 |
| 1981 | #1,848 | 59 |
| 1980 | #1,161 | 116 |
| 1979 | #1,193 | 110 |
| 1978 | #1,487 | 76 |
| 1977 | #1,345 | 84 |
| 1976 | #1,794 | 52 |
| 1975 | #1,430 | 73 |
| 1974 | #1,688 | 54 |
| 1973 | #1,458 | 65 |
| 1972 | #1,786 | 48 |
| 1971 | #1,686 | 54 |
| 1970 | #1,736 | 52 |
| 1969 | #2,208 | 33 |
| 1968 | #2,708 | 22 |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 |
| 1966 | #2,022 | 33 |
| 1965 | #2,938 | 18 |
| 1964 | #3,244 | 16 |
| 1963 | #2,619 | 22 |
| 1962 | #2,210 | 29 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 |
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 |
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| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Maia! It came in at #4,738, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Maia is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#131 · 1 in 390
- District of Columbia#214 · 1 in 596
- Massachusetts#296 · 1 in 1,341
- Colorado#315 · 1 in 1,309
- Connecticut#325 · 1 in 1,369
Best ever in a state: #50 in Hawaii, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #131 | 8 | 1 in 390 |
| District of Columbia | #214 | 6 | 1 in 596 |
| Massachusetts | #296 | 19 | 1 in 1,341 |
| Colorado | #315 | 18 | 1 in 1,309 |
| Connecticut | #325 | 9 | 1 in 1,369 |
| New York | #342 | 56 | 1 in 1,604 |
| Florida | #364 | 49 | 1 in 1,770 |
| Oregon | #381 | 10 | 1 in 1,520 |
| New Jersey | #383 | 21 | 1 in 1,742 |
| Wisconsin | #409 | 13 | 1 in 1,792 |
| California | #442 | 93 | 1 in 2,191 |
| Washington | #461 | 15 | 1 in 2,143 |
| Minnesota | #489 | 11 | 1 in 2,231 |
| Maryland | #617 | 8 | 1 in 3,005 |
| Indiana | #624 | 10 | 1 in 3,029 |
| Texas | #647 | 50 | 1 in 3,346 |
| Ohio | #678 | 14 | 1 in 3,719 |
| Pennsylvania | #684 | 14 | 1 in 3,704 |
| Arizona | #700 | 9 | 1 in 3,438 |
| South Carolina | #733 | 5 | 1 in 3,572 |
| Virginia | #772 | 9 | 1 in 4,126 |
| North Carolina | #778 | 11 | 1 in 4,119 |
| Illinois | #811 | 13 | 1 in 4,433 |
| Michigan | #827 | 9 | 1 in 4,674 |
| Georgia | #912 | 10 | 1 in 4,805 |
| Tennessee | #953 | 6 | 1 in 5,174 |
| Missouri | #958 | 5 | 1 in 5,425 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Maia
- 27 spots since 2024 (#460 → #433)
- 64 spots since 2020 (#497 → #433)
- 119 spots since 2015 (#552 → #433)
- Biggest jump: 200 spots in 1996 (#1,023 → #823)
- Biggest drop: 103 spots in 2007 (#508 → #611)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 2022 at #420 (752 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1996–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,181 girls born in 2022 were named Maia (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,248 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 28.1% of all girls named Maia (5,123) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 58 | #3,104 (1959) | #4,921 |
| 1960s | 217 | #2,022 (1966) | #2,821 |
| 1970s | 668 | #1,193 (1979) | #1,560 |
| 1980s | 728 | #1,161 (1980) | #1,682 |
| 1990s | 2,188 | #537 (1998) | #1,106 |
| 2000s | 5,057 | #508 (2006) | #567 |
| 2010s | 5,123 | #488 (2017) | #592 |
| 2020s | 4,161 | #420 (2022) | #451 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Maia in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 3,251 of them was named Maia, which outranked 97.0% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.