Mayan
#4,718 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mayan has been given to 636 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #4,718 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 32 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% girls, 41% boys all-time.
Babies named Mayan, 2025
1 in 114,000
Mayan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Mayan over time
In 2025, Mayan went to 71% girls and 29% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Mayan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 114,000
- 29 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 55,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,718
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 79,239 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mayan 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mayan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mayans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mayan was born before 2014 — so the typical Mayan is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 39.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 78.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 374
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (147).
Is Mayan 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
- +266
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,607
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +7,883
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.63×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 90.6%
- Peak was 2022 (32)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.1% average annual change
Spellings of Mayan
Mayan is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 31.7% against Mayan's 0.03%.
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 Mayan is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Mayan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 712,979 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 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. Mayan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Mayan is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Mayan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,743,270 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Mayan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mayan around the world
Where Mayan 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 & Wales2002–2025#2,788in 2025
- France2012–2025#3,629in 2025
- Canada2021–2024#3,457in 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.
Mayan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Mayan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mayan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.