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Majda

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Majda has been given to 11 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 6 recorded.

Babies named Majda, 2005

1 in 769,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Majda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Majda means

Majda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Majda is used in Slovene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovene, Majda is pronounced /máːjda/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Majda between 1998 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1998; its best national rank was #13,460 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 Majda?

Majda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Majda 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Majda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Majdas were born

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

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
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

1990s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Majda 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 1998 (6)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,460
1998

Spellings of Majda

Majda is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 32.5% against Majda'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.

Majda around the world

Where Majda 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
    2019–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • France
    1966–2025
    #3,128
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1964–1964
    #452
    in 1964

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.

Majda 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
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Best rank ever
#13,460
1998
Peak year
1998
6 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Majda

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

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Sibling names for Majda

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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