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Mayah

The girl's name Mayah has been in the national records since 1988, with 2,973 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,778th. About 2,900 Mayahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Mayah

By the numbers

Total US births
2,973
Estimated living today
2,900
Median age today
13
Peak year
2015
Best rank
1,362nd
Rank in 2025
2,778th
First recorded
1988

How old the living Mayahs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,973 babies given the name since 1988, about 2,900 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,100 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 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 Mayah is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Mayah is most concentrated in Florida (4.4×), California (2.8×), Texas (2.6×), Washington (1.5×).

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

Names of 2015

The most popular girls’ names the year Mayah peaked:

All the names of 2015

Mayah elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Mayah 423 1,160th
France girls Mayah 120 2,304th
Scotland girls Mayah 31 632nd
Northern Ireland girls Mayah 7 366th
Ireland girls Mayah 6 873rd
Poland girls Mayah 4 birth registrations 658th

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.

Mayah 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.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Mayah 7

A count of people on a register – 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.

Related names

Mayah against another name

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

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.