Maya
#62 for girls in 2025, 3,712 births · Last seen for boys in 2020 at #10,605
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 4,092 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 24 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 123,587since 1940
Maya over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #62 | 3,712 | — | |
| 2024 | #51 | 4,230 | — | |
| 2023 | #49 | 4,092 | — | |
| 2022 | #51 | 4,247 | — | |
| 2021 | #55 | 4,082 | — | |
| 2020 | #61 | 3,746 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #64 | 3,823 | — | |
| 2018 | #62 | 3,918 | — | |
| 2017 | #60 | 4,046 | — | |
| 2016 | #64 | 4,090 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #68 | 4,133 | — | |
| 2014 | #74 | 3,957 | — | |
| 2013 | #72 | 3,826 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #63 | 3,981 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | #64 | 4,024 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #66 | 3,971 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #61 | 4,393 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #71 | 4,270 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #62 | 4,701 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #57 | 5,047 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #73 | 4,431 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #83 | 3,767 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #84 | 3,849 | #5,558 | 13 |
| 2002 | #90 | 3,545 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #110 | 3,010 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #113 | 3,019 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #113 | 2,854 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #123 | 2,687 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #181 | 1,676 | — | |
| 1996 | #201 | 1,445 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #227 | 1,241 | — | |
| 1994 | #247 | 1,130 | — | |
| 1993 | #271 | 1,016 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #368 | 696 | — | |
| 1991 | #442 | 576 | — | |
| 1990 | #399 | 652 | — | |
| 1989 | #617 | 344 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #669 | 288 | — | |
| 1987 | #653 | 288 | — | |
| 1986 | #747 | 233 | — | |
| 1985 | #696 | 251 | — | |
| 1984 | #695 | 240 | — | |
| 1983 | #607 | 290 | — | |
| 1982 | #546 | 347 | — | |
| 1981 | #570 | 323 | — | |
| 1980 | #506 | 398 | — | |
| 1979 | #513 | 385 | — | |
| 1978 | #579 | 296 | — | |
| 1977 | #531 | 343 | — | |
| 1976 | #696 | 212 | — | |
| 1975 | #759 | 187 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #798 | 169 | — | |
| 1973 | #963 | 123 | — | |
| 1972 | #870 | 147 | — | |
| 1971 | #948 | 135 | — | |
| 1970 | #914 | 142 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,129 | 96 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,365 | 67 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,732 | 44 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,586 | 50 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,204 | 29 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,975 | 36 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,543 | 23 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,947 | 35 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,839 | 19 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,196 | 28 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,596 | 20 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,379 | 13 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,489 | 12 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,812 | 15 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | — | |
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| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 | — | |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | — | |
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| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Maya! It came in at #4,349, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1940–1948, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Maya
- 11 spots since 2024 (#51 → #62)
- 1 spot since 2020 (#61 → #62)
- 6 spots since 2015 (#68 → #62)
- Biggest jump: 218 spots in 1990 (#617 → #399)
- Biggest drop: 93 spots in 1973 (#870 → #963)
- Debuted 1940
- Peaked 2023 at #49 (4,092 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 24 yrs · run 2002–2025
- Top 1,000: 56 yrs · run 1970–2025
- Highest: 1 in 377 girls born in 2006 were named Maya (0.27%)
- Latest: 1 in 433 girls born in 2025 (0.23%)
- Its best rank, #49 in 2023, was only 1 in 392 (0.26%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.4% of all girls named Maya (40,032) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 25 | #3,393 (1949) | #4,264 |
| 1950s | 111 | #2,596 (1959) | #3,682 |
| 1960s | 427 | #1,129 (1969) | #1,952 |
| 1970s | 2,139 | #513 (1979) | #757 |
| 1980s | 3,002 | #506 (1980) | #631 |
| 1990s | 13,973 | #113 (1999) | #257 |
| 2000s | 40,032 | #57 (2006) | #80 |
| 2010s | 39,769 | #60 (2017) | #66 |
| 2020s | 24,109 | #49 (2023) | #55 |
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.
Maya in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 1,213 of them was named Maya, which outranked 98.7% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 270,614 of them was named Maya, which outranked 32.3% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,496Zeferino8
- #6,496Ziare8
- #6,496Zohair8
- #7,136Maya7
- #7,136Aaric7
- #7,136Aasin7
- #7,136Abby7
- #7,971Aalim6
- #7,971Aaronjames6
- #7,971Abdalla6
Tied with 834 names at #7,136; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.