Mayah
#2,802 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mayah has been given to 2,973 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #2,802 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 174 recorded.
Babies named Mayah, 2025
1 in 54,300
Mayah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mayah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 54,300
- 61 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 26,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,802
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 37,672 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mayah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 37,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mayah was born before 2012 — so the typical Mayah is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 45.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,973
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (1,338).
Is Mayah 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
- −559
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −690
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,438
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.35×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 35.1%
- Peak was 2015 (174)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 12.3% average annual change
Spellings of Mayah
Mayah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 54.9% against Mayah's 0.15%.
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 Mayah is used
Across 2016–2025, Mayah was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 16,252 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Rhode Island1 in 5,263
- 2Florida1 in 10,000
- 3Texas1 in 12,500
- 4California1 in 14,286
- 5New Jersey1 in 14,286
- 6New York1 in 16,667
- 7Massachusetts1 in 25,000
- 8Washington1 in 25,000
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.
Mayah around the world
Where Mayah 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 & Wales1998–2025#2,440in 2025
- Scotland2006–2025#632in 2025
- Northern Ireland2010–2015#426in 2015
- Ireland2017–2023#856in 2023
- France2008–2025#2,747in 2025
- Canada2001–2024#2,104in 2024
- South Australia1999–2013#818in 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.
Mayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Mayah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mayah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Mayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.