Maya

What Maya means

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

Editor’s note Steady in the US: #68 in 2015 and #62 in 2025. About 1 in 430 US girls in the 2025 records Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Maya?

US: Steady: #68 in 2015, #62 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #37 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2006, when 5,047 girls got the name (#57 that year). First in the US records in 1940.

How common

• About 1 in 433 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 201 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 132 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 DC (8.42 per 1,000 girls), VT (8.21 per 1,000 girls), HI (7.93 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Maya is #62 in the US and #28 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 Maya 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

• Mya697 US · 203 E&W
• Myah116 US · 43 E&W
• Miya123 US · 31 E&W
• Maiya75 US · 25 E&W
• Mayah61 US · 11 E&W
• Miyah40 US · 17 E&W
• Meya8 US · 3 E&W
• Maaya6 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 Maya

Girls

• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Zoe#31Variant of Zoë, meaning “life”^*
• Olivia#1“olive; olive branch”^*
• Sophie#55French form of Sophia, meaning “wisdom”^*
• Sarai#424“master, chief”^*
• Maia#433Editor’s note Up from #552 in 2015 to #433 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Zion#142Editor’s note Up from #227 in 2015 to #142 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 680 US boys in the 2025 records
• Noah#2Editor’s note Steady in the US: #1 in 2015 and #2 in 2025. About 1 in 84 US boys in the 2025 records
• Zander#396Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Isaac#47“he laughs, he will laugh”^*

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