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

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Peak · girls
2023 · 4,092 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
24 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · girls
123,587
since 1940

Maya over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202024girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#623,712
2024#514,230
2023#494,092
2022#514,247
2021#554,082
2020#613,746#10,6056
2019#643,823
2018#623,918
2017#604,046
2016#644,090#12,1855
2015#684,133
2014#743,957
2013#723,826#9,6557
2012#633,981#8,8648
2011#644,024#8,7678
2010#663,971#8,1399
2009#614,393#6,80212
2008#714,270#8,3249
2007#624,701#12,3675
2006#575,047#10,6626
2005#734,431#7,6409
2004#833,767#11,3565
2003#843,849#5,55813
2002#903,545#10,6675
2001#1103,010#10,5565
2000#1133,019#9,1126
1999#1132,854#7,1398
1998#1232,687#6,3149
1997#1811,676
1996#2011,445#7,1367
1995#2271,241
1994#2471,130
1993#2711,016#8,7005
1992#368696
1991#442576
1990#399652
1989#617344#4,52711
1988#669288
1987#653288
1986#747233
1985#696251
1984#695240
1983#607290
1982#546347
1981#570323
1980#506398
1979#513385
1978#579296
1977#531343
1976#696212
1975#759187#5,4645
1974#798169
1973#963123
1972#870147
1971#948135
1970#914142
1969#1,12996
1968#1,36567
1967#1,73244
1966#1,58650
1965#2,20429
1964#1,97536
1963#2,54323
1962#1,94735
1961#2,83919
1960#2,19628
1959#2,59620
1958#3,37913
1957#3,48912
1956#3,69611
1955#4,0699
1954#3,9679
1953#2,81215
1952#4,4837
1951#4,0118
1950#4,3157
1949#3,39310
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1942#4,6225
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First appearance
1940

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
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
83 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1940
  • Peaked 2023 at #49 (4,092 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 100 for 24 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 24 yrs · run 2002–2025
  • Top 1,000: 56 yrs · run 1970–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 377
  • 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
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 32.4% of all girls named Maya (40,032) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s25#3,393 (1949)#4,264
1950s111#2,596 (1959)#3,682
1960s427#1,129 (1969)#1,952
1970s2,139#513 (1979)#757
1980s3,002#506 (1980)#631
1990s13,973#113 (1999)#257
2000s40,032#57 (2006)#80
2010s39,769#60 (2017)#66
2020s24,109#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 2024

girls
#51
4,230 births · 1 in 383 girls

Top girls' names in 2024

  1. #1Olivia14,772
  2. #2Emma13,524
  3. #3Amelia12,786
  4. #4Charlotte12,597
  5. #5Mia12,149
  6. #6Sophia12,126
  7. #7Isabella10,810
  8. #8Evelyn9,146
  9. #9Ava8,700
  10. #10Sofia8,113
  11. #51Maya4,230
More about 2024

girls

1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 383 of them was named Maya, which outranked 99.7% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Maya
  1. #48Victoria4,281
  2. #49Stella4,274
  3. #50Delilah4,254
  4. #51Maya4,230
  5. #52Hannah4,078
  6. #53Leah3,988
  7. #54Lillian3,893
Biggest movers since 2023
Risers
  1. 756Ailany#857#101
  2. 439Aylani#1,001#562
  3. 426Marjorie#1,248#822
  4. 414Scottie#616#202
  5. 365Elodie#737#372
Fallers
  1. 605Emryn#887#1,492
  2. 307Zhuri#862#1,169
  3. 301Layne#974#1,275
  4. 273Alitzel#876#1,149
  5. 267Aleyna#964#1,231

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2024