Maia

What Maia means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Maia yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #552 in 2015 to #433 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Maia?

US: Rising: up from #552 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #220 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 752 girls got the name (#420 that year). First in the US records in 1950.

How common

• About 1 in 2,248 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 993 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,278 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (2.8 per 1,000 girls), NH (1.84 per 1,000 girls), CT (1.22 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Maia is #433 in the US and #197 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Maia were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Mia11,078 US · 1,372 E&W
• Miah144 US · 25 E&W
• Maiah33 US
• Mea17 US · 7 E&W
• Mio15 US · 3 E&W
• Miia8 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Maia

Girls

• Maya#62Editor’s note Steady in the US: #68 in 2015 and #62 in 2025. About 1 in 430 US girls in the 2025 records
• Azariah#630“Yah Has Helped”^*
• Olivia#1“olive; olive branch”^*
• Livia#819Editor’s note Down from #724 in 2015 to #819 in 2025 in the US
• Natalia#144“birthday (of the Lord)”^*
• Valery#743Editor’s note Up from #1,209 in 2015 to #743 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Magnus#763“great”^*
• Maximilian#590German, meaning “the greatest”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Blaze#781Editor’s note Down from #707 in 2015 to #781 in 2025 in the US
• Lukas#288“a man from Lucania”^*
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Maia’s. Rank is US 2025.