girl's name

Maiya

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 6,151

Northern Ireland

#560

2011 births

Maiya is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 75 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 2000, when 213 babies were given the name.
  • It has been falling over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 44,205 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1974.

Maiya over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1970s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

1,648
'70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Maiya by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1970s 35
1980s 86
1990s 829
2000s 1,648
2010s 1,339
2020s (to 2025) 429

How popular is Maiya?

In 2025, Maiya was given to 75 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Maiya is used

Northern Ireland #560 3 in 2011
Scotland #645 5 in 2019
Ireland #825 4 in 2020
England & Wales #1,314 25 in 2025
United States #2,408 75 in 2025
Canada #2,453 9 in 2024
France as Maïya #4,903 5 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Maiya is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Maïya Maïya is a rare spelling of Maiya, written with a diaeresis and recorded about 65 times, mostly in France. 65

Names that peaked alongside Maiya

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Maiya also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Maiya over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Maiya

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Maiya — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Maiya

How popular is the name Maiya?

In 2025, Maiya was given to 75 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Maiya a girl's or a boy's name?

Maiya is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Maiya most popular?

Maiya peaked in 2000, when 213 babies were given the name. It has been falling over the past decade.

Is Maiya a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Maiya currently ranks #1,314 in the United States. It has been falling over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.