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Maila

#3,623 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Maila has been given to 759 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #3,623 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Maila, 2025

1 in 78,900

Maila over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maila: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maila means

Maila belongs to the name family reached through Maila → Maria → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Maila is used in Estonian and Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria, Maarja and מרים.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Maila is pronounced /ˈmɑi̯lɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 759 girls were recorded with the name Maila between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 70 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,545 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,529 in 2020 to #3,623 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,848 in 2015 to #3,623 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 Maila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 38,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,623
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maila 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 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mailas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maila was born before 2017 — so the typical Maila is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
39.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
759
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (302).

Is Maila 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
−134
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−94
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,225
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2022 (70)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,545
2022

Spellings of Maila

Maila is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 14.8% against Maila's 0.02%.

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 Maila is used

Across 1910–2025, Maila was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 218,878 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Maila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maila around the world

Where Maila 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
    2013–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1994–2025
    #1,952
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,623
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 94
Best rank ever
#2,545
2022
Peak year
2022
70 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
759
Count in 2025
42

Names similar to Maila

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

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Sibling names for Maila

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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