Meaning not yet researched.
Maya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,712 in 2025. Its best rank was #49 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #49 in 2023; #62 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#62 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #49.
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Maya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,712 girls in 2025. Peak: #49 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 5,047 (2006).
In 2025, 3,712 US girls were named Maya, making it the 62nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 11 places from #51 in 2024. That is 518 fewer than the 4,230 girls named Maya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #49, reached in 2023. The most girls given the name in a single year was 5,047, in 2006. For comparison, it was #68 in 2015 and #4,594 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maya in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1940 with 5 babies. In all, 123,750 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 40,107 babies named Maya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 39,986 US girls were named Maya; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 4,247. In 2025 that was about 1 in 433 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maya ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #18 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 29 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Mya (62,363 babies since 1880), Amaya (43,547 babies since 1880), Maia (18,200 babies since 1880) and Miya (8,071 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maye, Mayo and Maija are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Atayal, Dutch and Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maye (1,956), Mayo (1,492), Maija (1,189), Maiah (1,086), Ma (631), Moya (627), Maiyah (555), Maui (389), Mao (295), Mayu (204), Maie (197), Mahiya (149), and more.
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 Maya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 161 | #18 | #21 |
| District of Columbia | 17 | #24 | #30 |
| Hawaii | 17 | #24 | #32 |
| California | 658 | #29 | #39 |
| Washington | 123 | #33 | #42 |
| Oregon | 62 | #35 | #51 |
| New Mexico | 24 | #39 | #61 |
| New York | 275 | #41 | #35 |
| Connecticut | 56 | #45 | #34 |
| Illinois | 153 | #48 | #29 |
| Colorado | 84 | #51 | #46 |
| New Jersey | 135 | #51 | #24 |
| Vermont | 8 | #55 | #52 |
| Maryland | 65 | #56 | #61 |
| Florida | 244 | #58 | #59 |
| Virginia | 98 | #60 | #54 |
| Nevada | 32 | #60 | #85 |
| Arizona | 81 | #63 | #66 |
| Minnesota | 67 | #71 | #54 |
| Texas | 354 | #71 | #87 |
| North Carolina | 114 | #81 | #122 |
| Pennsylvania | 111 | #82 | #99 |
| Wisconsin | 54 | #85 | #84 |
| Rhode Island | 10 | #86 | #62 |
| New Hampshire | 14 | #87 | #79 |
| Michigan | 84 | #88 | #92 |
| Delaware | 9 | #89 | #144 |
| Ohio | 102 | #96 | #125 |
| Utah | 42 | #100 | #130 |
| Idaho | 18 | #116 | #103 |
| Georgia | 80 | #119 | #99 |
| Kansas | 26 | #124 | #104 |
| Alaska | 6 | #126 | #65 |
| Nebraska | 17 | #136 | #217 |
| South Carolina | 32 | #142 | #180 |
| Maine | 8 | #145 | #102 |
| Tennessee | 50 | #153 | #175 |
| Arkansas | 19 | #159 | #122 |
| Kentucky | 28 | #161 | #147 |
| Indiana | 42 | #165 | #112 |
| West Virginia | 10 | #172 | #339 |
| Missouri | 34 | #184 | #115 |
| Oklahoma | 21 | #191 | #279 |
| Iowa | 16 | #214 | #129 |
| Alabama | 19 | #261 | #292 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #264 | #144 |
| Louisiana | 15 | #318 | #192 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #606 | #548 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,712 | #62 | — | — |
| 2024 | 4,230 | #51 | — | — |
| 2023 | 4,092 | #49 | — | — |
| 2022 | 4,247 | #51 | — | — |
| 2021 | 4,082 | #55 | — | — |
| 2020 | 3,746 | #61 | 6 | #11,511 |
| 2019 | 3,823 | #64 | — | — |
| 2018 | 3,918 | #62 | — | — |
| 2017 | 4,046 | #60 | — | — |
| 2016 | 4,090 | #64 | 5 | #13,520 |
| 2015 | 4,133 | #68 | — | — |
| 2014 | 3,957 | #74 | — | — |
| 2013 | 3,826 | #72 | 7 | #10,353 |
| 2012 | 3,981 | #63 | 8 | #9,413 |
| 2011 | 4,024 | #64 | 8 | #9,326 |
| 2010 | 3,971 | #66 | 9 | #8,563 |
| 2009 | 4,393 | #61 | 12 | #7,095 |
| 2008 | 4,270 | #71 | 9 | #8,770 |
| 2007 | 4,701 | #62 | 5 | #13,706 |
| 2006 | 5,047 | #57 | 6 | #11,572 |
| 2005 | 4,431 | #73 | 9 | #8,079 |
| 2004 | 3,767 | #83 | 5 | #12,566 |
| 2003 | 3,849 | #84 | 13 | #5,774 |
| 2002 | 3,545 | #90 | 5 | #11,846 |
| 2001 | 3,010 | #110 | 5 | #11,710 |
| 2000 | 3,019 | #113 | 6 | #9,890 |
| 1999 | 2,854 | #113 | 8 | #7,623 |
| 1998 | 2,687 | #123 | 9 | #6,655 |
| 1997 | 1,676 | #182 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,445 | #201 | 7 | #7,694 |
| 1995 | 1,241 | #227 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,130 | #247 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,016 | #271 | 5 | #9,657 |
| 1992 | 696 | #368 | — | — |
| 1991 | 576 | #443 | — | — |
| 1990 | 652 | #399 | — | — |
| 1989 | 344 | #617 | 11 | #4,708 |
| 1988 | 288 | #669 | — | — |
| 1987 | 288 | #654 | — | — |
| 1986 | 233 | #747 | — | — |
| 1985 | 251 | #696 | — | — |
| 1984 | 240 | #695 | — | — |
| 1983 | 290 | #607 | — | — |
| 1982 | 347 | #547 | — | — |
| 1981 | 323 | #571 | — | — |
| 1980 | 398 | #506 | — | — |
| 1979 | 385 | #513 | — | — |
| 1978 | 296 | #581 | — | — |
| 1977 | 343 | #531 | — | — |
| 1976 | 212 | #698 | — | — |
| 1975 | 187 | #759 | 5 | #6,003 |
| 1974 | 169 | #800 | — | — |
| 1973 | 123 | #972 | — | — |
| 1972 | 147 | #872 | — | — |
| 1971 | 135 | #950 | — | — |
| 1970 | 142 | #914 | — | — |
| 1969 | 96 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1968 | 67 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1967 | 44 | #1,742 | — | — |
| 1966 | 50 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,231 | — | — |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,590 | — | — |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,645 | — | — |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,495 | — | — |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,606 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,834 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,273 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,175 | — | — |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,783 | — | — |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,258 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,594 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,538 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,125 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,121 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,819 | — | — |
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).