Name Awesome

Maiya

#2,398 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maiya has been given to 4,366 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #2,398 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 213 recorded.

Babies named Maiya, 2025

1 in 44,200

Maiya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maiya: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maiya means

Maiya is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maiya is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,366 girls were recorded with the name Maiya between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 213 in 2000; its best national rank was #996 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,368 in 2020 to #2,398 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,539 in 2015 to #2,398 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 Maiya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 44,200
75 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,398
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,640 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maiya 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,640 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maiyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maiya was born before 2007 — so the typical Maiya is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,366
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (1,648).

Is Maiya 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
−100
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−30
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−859
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.2%
Peak was 2000 (213)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#996
2000

Spellings of Maiya

Maiya is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 62.2% against Maiya's 0.07%.

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 Maiya is used

Across 2016–2025, Maiya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 25,917 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2Florida1 in 25,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 25,000
  4. 4New York1 in 25,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 25,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 33,333
  7. 7Utah1 in 33,333
  8. 8Virginia1 in 33,333

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.

Maiya around the world

Where Maiya 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
    1997–2025
    #1,271
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2019
    #560
    in 2019
  • Northern Ireland
    2011–2011
    #444
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    2008–2020
    #700
    in 2020
  • France
    2004–2025
    #6,300
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maiya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,398
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 30
Best rank ever
#996
2000
Peak year
2000
213 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,366
Count in 2025
75

Names similar to Maiya

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

MaiteMaisyMaileMairaMaidaMaizyMaizieMaijaMaiahMaishaPriyaMaisynMailaAsiyaMaiAriyaMaisieKaiyaAmiyaMailyKiyaSamiyaMaiseyNiya

Names with a curve like Maiya

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

JaycieGraysonMackennaHarlieMakenziLexyCaleighRyleySamariaAnaliseAshtynJacie

Sibling names for Maiya

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

Explore around Maiya

Top names of 2000, Maiya's peak yearThe 2000s in fullOther names that peaked in 2000Girls' names starting with M