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Maayan

#9,231 in 2025Girls' name

Spring of water

Maayan has been given to 644 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #9,231 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Maayan, 2025

1 in 301,000

Maayan over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maayan: meaning, origin, and history

Spring of water

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maayan means

Maayan means “spring of water”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 616 girls were recorded with the name Maayan between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2009; its best national rank was #4,436 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,991 in 2020 to #9,231 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,057 in 2015 to #9,231 in 2025.

In the United States, 28 boys were recorded with the name Maayan between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2015; its best national rank was #11,483 in 2025.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,572 in 2015 to #11,483 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 Maayan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,231
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maayan 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maayan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maayans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maayan was born before 2009 — so the typical Maayan is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
616
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Choose a decade

2000s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (212).

Is Maayan 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
−2,677
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+760
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,174
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.41×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.4%
Peak was 2009 (34)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,436
2009

Spellings of Maayan

Maayan is not the most common spelling — Marian is, with 32.0% against Maayan's 0.14%.

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.

Where Maayan is used

Across 1910–2025, Maayan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 200,551 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maayan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maayan around the world

Where Maayan 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.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • France
    1996–2013
    #6,090
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2013–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1999–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maayan by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,231
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 760
Best rank ever
#4,436
2009
Peak year
2009
34 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
616
Count in 2025
11

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,483
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#11,483
2025
Peak year
2015
6 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
6

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

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