Maja

What Maja means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #468 vs #3,712 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Maja?

US: Falling: down from #2846 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #173 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2011, when 81 girls got the name (#2298 that year). First in the US records in 1953.

How common

• About 1 in 40,182 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,980 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,578 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 IL (0.11 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Maja is #3712 in the US and #468 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 Maja were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Magi0 US · 11 E&W
• Maija8 US · 3 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 Maja

Girls

• Chloe#23“young green shoot”^*
• Gracie#227Editor’s note Down from #165 in 2015 to #227 in 2025 in the US
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Juliana#256Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #256 vs #1,892 in 2025
• Gabriella#105Editor’s note Down from #54 in 2015 to #105 in 2025 in the US
• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*

For a brother

• Adrian#74“from the Roman harbor Hadria”^*
• Brayden#229Variant of Braden, meaning “descendant of Bradán”^*
• Xavier#108Editor’s note Down from #90 in 2015 to #108 in 2025 in the US
• Carson#124“rock”^*
• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025
• Caden#201Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #201 vs #745 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Maja’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.