Meaning not yet researched.
Maja: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,315 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,315 in 2011; #3,747 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maja in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,747 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #2,315.
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Maja: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,315 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 84 (2009).
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Maja, making it the 3,747th most common girls’ name of the year, up 266 places from #4,013 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 37 girls named Maja in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,315, reached in 2011. The most girls given the name in a single year was 84, in 2009. For comparison, it was #2,874 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maja in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 2,049 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 639 babies named Maja.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 455 US girls were named Maja; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Maya (123,750 babies since 1880) and Maia (18,200 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maijah and Majai are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Polish and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maijah (6), Majai (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Maja in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,747 | — | — |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,013 | — | — |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,945 | — | — |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,147 | — | — |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,055 | — | — |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,886 | — | — |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,072 | — | — |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,189 | — | — |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,283 | — | — |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,874 | — | — |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,634 | — | — |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,247 | — | — |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,995 | — | — |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,445 | — | — |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 2005 | 75 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,373 | — | — |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,312 | — | — |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,884 | — | — |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,548 | — | — |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,154 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,691 | — | — |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,400 | — | — |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,831 | — | — |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,376 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,144 | — | — |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,898 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,839 | — | — |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,008 | — | — |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,782 | — | — |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,587 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,211 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,484 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,289 | — | — |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,107 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,745 | — | — |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,965 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,131 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,083 | — | — |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,339 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,857 | — | — |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,793 | — | — |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,751 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,354 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,848 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,216 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,345 | — | — |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,394 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,347 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,380 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,492 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,722 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,596 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,475 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,304 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,285 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,975 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,197 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).