Maya
Maya is ranked 51st among girls in 2024 (4,220 births). Its best rank was 50th, in 2023.
- Rank in 2024
- #51down 1 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4,2200.26% of girls
- Peak year
- 20065,047 births
- Best rank
- #50in 2023
- Since 1940
- 119,839people given the name
The story in the numbers
119,839 girls have been named Maya in the United States since 1940, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 5,047 births — 0.27% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 74 → 51).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2000s alone account for 33%. It has spent 55 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 23 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Maya | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 25 | |
| 1950s | 111 | |
| 1960s | 429 | |
| 1970s | 2,139 | |
| 1980s | 3,002 | |
| 1990s | 13,971 | |
| 2000s | 40,029 | |
| 2010s | 39,760 | |
| 2020s | 20,373 |
In 2006, its biggest year
Maya was the 57th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2006 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Maya
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kaleapeak 2004
- Sarahipeak 2005
- Aminatapeak 2015
- Sianapeak 2007
- Akirapeak 2008
- Nataliapeak 2006
- Amanipeak 2008
- Malipeak 2008
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.