Maina

Girls' name

Prince

Maina has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 1998, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Maina, 1998

1 in 735,000

Maina over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maina: meaning, origin, and history

Prince

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maina means

Maina means “prince”, associated with mainà.

Origin, language, and formation

Maina is used in Hausa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hausa, Maina is pronounced /mái.nà/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Maina between 1998 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1998; its best national rank was #15,584 in 1998.

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 Maina?

Maina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998: 1 in 735,000; 5 of 3,677,189 births
Among girls only: 1 in 353,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1998: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 509,768 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Maina 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 1998 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 509,768 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mainas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maina was born before 1998 — so the typical Maina is around 27 today.

Median birth year: 1998; About 27 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Maina 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1998 (5)
Years since peak: 27; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #15,584; 1998

Spellings of Maina

Maina is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 19.2% against Maina's <0.01%.

Anna19.2%914,859
Maria11.9%566,111
Mia6.5%310,219
Tina6.1%292,146
Dana4.1%193,555
Gina3.2%153,057
Nina2.8%133,788
Maya2.6%123,587

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.

Maina around the world

Where Maina 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.

France
1972–2025
#245
in 2025
Canada
1995–2023
#2,222
in 2023

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maina 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: #15,584; 1998
Peak year: 1998; 5 that year
First recorded: 1998
Last recorded: 1998
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Maina

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

Maita Maike Maide Maiti Maica Maiha Maian Maiia Maizi Maivy Haina Maise Maine Maiar Mailea Maigon Mainou Maider Maitha Maiani Maidee Maijah Chaina Mailanni

Sibling names for Maina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Cydney Kalie Reilly Reanna Serina Isela Shae Taya

For a brother

Demarco Ronaldo Tariq Jaren Samual Jovan Reyes Cordell

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