Maya

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Maya boys named Maya

By the numbers

Total US births

123,750

Estimated living today

122,000

Median age today

15

Peak year

2006

Best rank

57th

Rank in 2025

62nd

First recorded

1940

Girls / boys

123,587 / 163

How old the living Mayas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 123,750 babies given the name since 1940, about 122,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 72,000 of them are children and 130 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

From Maria, ultimately.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Mayas

• Maya Angelou (1928–2014)American poet, author, and civil rights activist
• Maya Plisetskaya (1925–2015)Russian ballet dancer
• Maya Yoshida (born 1988)Japanese association football player
• Maya Hawke (born 1998)American actress
• Maya (600 BC–600 BC)queen; mother of the Buddha
• Maya Rudolph (born 1972)American actress and comedian
• Maya Deren (1917–1961)Ukrainian-born American avant-garde filmmaker
• Maya Lin (born 1959)American sculptor and architect

People named Maya with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Maya is most common

• CA21,933
• NY10,533
• TX8,886
• FL6,512
• IL6,501
• NJ4,464
• PA4,086
• MA3,981
• MI3,677
• OH3,496

Relative to how many babies each state records, Maya is most concentrated in Nevada (2.3×), Hawaii (2.0×), the District of Columbia (1.9×), California (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2006

The most popular girls’ names the year Maya peaked:

• Emily
• Emma
• Madison
• Isabella
• Ava
• Abigail

All the names of 2006

Maya elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Maya: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Maya is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.23% of children were given it – 232 of them.

Maya: rank by region

In 2025, Maya was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Maya was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Maya was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Maya appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (45th), Brussels-Capital Region (47th), Province of Antwerp (78th), Province of West Flanders (86th), Province of Limburg (94th), Province of Liège (98th), Province of Hainaut (102nd) and Province of East Flanders (109th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Maya by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Maya among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Maya lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 4,261 women called Maya were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• May
• Mayra
• Maynard
• Mayme
• Maybelle
• Mayson
• Maylee
• Mayte
• Maylin
• Mayah
• Maycee
• Mayer

Maya against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Maya vs May
• Maya vs Mayra
• Maya vs Maynard
• Maya vs Mayme
• Maya vs Maybelle
• Maya vs Mayson

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