In 2025, 43 US girls were named Maida, making it the 3,556th most common girls’ name of the year, down 402 places from #3,154 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 51 girls named Maida in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #735, reached in 1883. The most girls given the name in a single year was 57, in 1918. For comparison, it was #3,572 in 2015 and #1,889 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maida in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 8 babies. In all, 3,003 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 380 babies named Maida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 462 US girls were named Maida; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Madai, Mayda and Mada are summarised on this page.