Mayah
#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 174 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,973since 1988
Mayah over time
Rank among girls' names. Mayah has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #2,778 | 61 |
| 2024 | #2,231 | 84 |
| 2023 | #2,288 | 80 |
| 2022 | #2,530 | 70 |
| 2021 | #2,384 | 75 |
| 2020 | #2,100 | 87 |
| 2019 | #1,949 | 100 |
| 2018 | #1,727 | 119 |
| 2017 | #1,534 | 143 |
| 2016 | #1,628 | 134 |
| 2015 | #1,362 | 174 |
| 2014 | #1,643 | 130 |
| 2013 | #1,695 | 123 |
| 2012 | #1,663 | 128 |
| 2011 | #1,564 | 140 |
| 2010 | #1,521 | 147 |
| 2009 | #1,612 | 139 |
| 2008 | #1,642 | 137 |
| 2007 | #1,940 | 106 |
| 2006 | #1,788 | 116 |
| 2005 | #1,668 | 119 |
| 2004 | #2,135 | 84 |
| 2003 | #1,885 | 97 |
| 2002 | #2,673 | 57 |
| 2001 | #2,663 | 56 |
| 2000 | #2,854 | 50 |
| 1999 | #2,935 | 45 |
| 1998 | #3,173 | 39 |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 |
| 1996 | #3,569 | 31 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 |
| 1994 | #5,016 | 19 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Mayah! It came in at #10,386, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1992, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Mayah is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#845 · 1 in 4,480
- Wisconsin#867 · 1 in 4,902
- California#1,170 · 1 in 8,085
- Illinois#1,212 · 1 in 7,905
- Florida#1,335 · 1 in 9,148
Best ever in a state: #182 in Rhode Island, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | #845 | 7 | 1 in 4,480 |
| Wisconsin | #867 | 5 | 1 in 4,902 |
| California | #1,170 | 27 | 1 in 8,085 |
| Illinois | #1,212 | 8 | 1 in 7,905 |
| Florida | #1,335 | 9 | 1 in 9,148 |
| Texas | #1,395 | 17 | 1 in 9,804 |
| Georgia | #1,525 | 5 | 1 in 10,145 |
| New York | #1,613 | 8 | 1 in 11,847 |
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See more about Mayah
- 547 spots since 2024 (#2,231 → #2,778)
- 678 spots since 2020 (#2,100 → #2,778)
- 1,416 spots since 2015 (#1,362 → #2,778)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2015 at #1,362 (174 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,259 girls born in 2015 were named Mayah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,349 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.0% of all girls named Mayah (1,338) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 13 | #9,681 (1989) | #10,034 |
| 1990s | 204 | #2,935 (1999) | #6,556 |
| 2000s | 961 | #1,612 (2009) | #2,086 |
| 2010s | 1,338 | #1,362 (2015) | #1,629 |
| 2020s | 457 | #2,100 (2020) | #2,385 |
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.
Mayah in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
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1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 13,217 of them was named Mayah, which outranked 92.0% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,602Rhyan140
- #1,602Tanvi140
- #1,602Yazmine140
- #1,612Mayah139
- #1,612Anali139
- #1,612Brook139
- #1,612Cailey139
- #1,620Beverly138
- #1,620Capri138
- #1,620Carys138
Tied with 7 names at #1,612; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.