Maia — #459 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Maia

The Social Security Administration has registered 17,481 babies named Maia between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maia currently holds the #459 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 752 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Maia performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,123 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Maia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,609 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Maia in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Maia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 17,481 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.