Maya Girl
How popular is Maya?
#62 girl name in 2025
3,712 baby girls were named Maya in the US in 2025, making it the 62nd most popular girl name.
Maya popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #62 for girls (▼ 11 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 3,712 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-10% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #68 in 2015, #61 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2006 (5,047 girls) |
| Highest rank | #49 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1940 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Maya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Maya family of names ranked #62 for girls in 2025 (#52 the year before), with 4,521 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Maya is most popular
Babies named Maya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 12.1 per 1,000 (144 girls)
- Hawaii: 8.6 per 1,000 (99 girls)
- Massachusetts: 6.4 per 1,000 (773 girls)
- Vermont: 6.0 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- New Hampshire: 5.8 per 1,000 (107 girls)
Maya by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 25 | #3,392 |
| 1950s | 111 | #2,595 |
| 1960s | 427 | #1,129 |
| 1970s | 2,139 | #513 |
| 1980s | 3,002 | #506 |
| 1990s | 13,973 | #113 |
| 2000s | 40,032 | #57 |
| 2010s | 39,769 | #60 |
| 2020s | 24,109 | #49 |
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Questions
- Is Maya a boy or girl name?
- Maya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Maya were girls.
- How popular is the name Maya?
- 3,712 baby girls were named Maya in the US in 2025, making it the 62nd most popular girl name.
- When was Maya most popular?
- Maya peaked in 2006, when 5,047 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #49 in 2023.
- How many people are named Maya?
- 123,750 babies have been named Maya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 122,612 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 16.
- Where is Maya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Maya was most common in District of Columbia, at 12.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.