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Maat

#12,662 in 2025Girls' name

Truth, virtue, justice

Maat has been given to 194 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #12,662 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Maat, 2025

1 in 474,000

Maat over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maat: meaning, origin, and history

Truth, virtue, justice

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maat means

Maat means “truth, virtue, justice”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Maat is used in Egyptian Mythology.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 194 girls were recorded with the name Maat between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2020; its best national rank was #6,224 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,224 in 2020 to #12,662 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,892 in 2015 to #12,662 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Maat?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,662
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maat sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maat was born before 2018 — so the typical Maat is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
194
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.5% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Maat rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−4,846
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,438
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,770
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.8%
Peak was 2020 (19)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,224
2020

Spellings of Maat

Maat is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 81.6% against Maat's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Maat around the world

Where Maat ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maat by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,662
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,438
Best rank ever
#6,224
2020
Peak year
2020
19 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
194
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Maat

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MaahiMaayaMaanviMaameMaanyaAyaatMaayanMaansiMaaliyahMaaliMaanasaMaariKainaatMaariaHayaatMaahaMaanaMaaikeMaahiraMaariyahMaahikaJanaat

Sibling names for Maat

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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