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Maiken

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maiken has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2004. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2004, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Maiken, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maiken: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maiken means

Maiken is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maiken is used in Danish, Estonian and Norwegian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Maiken between 2004 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2004; its best national rank was #15,324 in 2004.

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 Maiken?

Maiken had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maiken 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maiken. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maikens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maiken was born before 2004 — so the typical Maiken is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Maiken 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (6)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#15,324
2004

Spellings of Maiken

Maiken is not the most common spelling — Maren is, with 14.9% against Maiken'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.

Maiken around the world

Where Maiken 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.

  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #126
    in 2025

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Maiken by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,324
2004
Peak year
2004
6 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maiken

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

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Sibling names for Maiken

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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