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Maya vs Maycee

American parents have registered 123,750 Mayas since 1880, against 2,783 Maycees. Maya is still ahead, with 3,712 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maya against Maycee, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maya Maycee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Maya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1940 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Maya had 3,980 and Maycee had 200.

Side by side

  Maya Maycee
Total US births 123,7502,783
Most in one year 5,053200
Babies in 2025 3,71248
Estimated living today 122,0002,800
Median age today 1515
Peak year 20062010
Best rank 57th girls1,206th girls
Rank in 2025 62nd3,249th
First recorded 19401990
Girls / boys 123,587 / 1632,783 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Maya Maycee
England and Wales 27,70449

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maya and Maycee.