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Maika

#7,359 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maika has been given to 758 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #7,359 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 23 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 67% girls, 33% boys all-time.

Babies named Maika, 2025

1 in 221,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Maika over time

In 2025, Maika went to 60% girls and 40% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Maika: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maika means

Maika is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maika is used in Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 507 girls were recorded with the name Maika between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2008; its best national rank was #6,064 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,433 in 2020 to #7,359 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,152 in 2015 to #7,359 in 2025.

In the United States, 251 boys were recorded with the name Maika between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2004; its best national rank was #5,340 in 1991.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,362 in 2015 to #8,009 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.

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How common is Maika?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,359
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maika 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maikas were born

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

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
507
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (154).

Is Maika 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
−244
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+74
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−207
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.2%
Peak was 2008 (23)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,064
2008

Spellings of Maika

Maika is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 28.2% against Maika's 0.03%.

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 Maika is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Maika was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 470,964 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Maika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Maika is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Maika was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 285,699 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Maika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maika around the world

Where Maika 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
    2011–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • France
    1970–2025
    #2,361
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #991
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1987–2013
    #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.

Maika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,359
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 74
Best rank ever
#6,064
2008
Peak year
2008
23 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
507
Count in 2025
15

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,009
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,340
1991
Peak year
2004
13 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
251
Count in 2025
10

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