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Maida

#3,555 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maida has been given to 3,003 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #3,555 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Maida, 2025

1 in 77,100

Maida over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maida: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maida means

Maida is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maida is used in Serbo-Croatian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,003 girls were recorded with the name Maida between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 1918; its best national rank was #735 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,431 in 2020 to #3,555 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,572 in 2015 to #3,555 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maida?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 37,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,555
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maida 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maida was born before 1950 — so the typical Maida is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
12.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,521
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 12.7% of all recorded uses (380).

Is Maida 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
−401
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−124
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+17
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.98×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.4%
Peak was 1918 (57)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#735
1883

Spellings of Maida

Maida is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 22.4% against Maida's 0.09%.

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 Maida is used

Across 1910–2025, Maida was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 122,253 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 11,111
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Colorado1 in —
  6. 6Indiana1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Maida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maida around the world

Where Maida 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
    2000–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • France
    1920–2025
    #3,222
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Maida

People whose public names include Maida, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maida by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,555
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 124
Best rank ever
#735
1883
Peak year
1918
57 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,003
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Maida

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

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Names with a curve like Maida

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maida, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Maida

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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