Maia
Maia was given to 715 girls in 2025, #433 among girls’ names; 18,200 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 18,000 Americans named Maia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maia is “a female given name from Latin, of recent usage.”
Also “a female given name, variant of Maya.”
From Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa).
/ˈmeɪ.ə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maia?
#433 among girls’ names, 2025
Maia rose from #553 in 2015 to #433 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.31 to 0.44 per 1,000.
752 babies in 2022, the peak
Maia peaked in 2022, when 752 girls were given it, #420 among girls’ names. The 715 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 715 | #433 | 0.44 |
| 2024 | 682 | #460 | 0.42 |
| 2023 | 672 | #459 | 0.42 |
| 2022 | 752 | #420 | 0.46 |
| 2021 | 724 | #435 | 0.44 |
| 2020 | 616 | #498 | 0.38 |
| 2019 | 587 | #525 | 0.35 |
| 2018 | 620 | #502 | 0.36 |
| 2017 | 639 | #489 | 0.37 |
| 2016 | 545 | #570 | 0.31 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 562 | #553 | 0.31 |
| 2014 | 456 | #628 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 440 | #642 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 386 | #720 | 0.22 |
| 2011 | 413 | #680 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 475 | #620 | 0.27 |
| 2009 | 512 | #588 | 0.28 |
| 2008 | 487 | #635 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 492 | #611 | 0.26 |
| 2006 | 598 | #508 | 0.31 |
| 2005 | 558 | #523 | 0.30 |
| 2004 | 512 | #559 | 0.28 |
| 2003 | 494 | #565 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 512 | #535 | 0.28 |
| 2001 | 417 | #604 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 475 | #550 | 0.26 |
| 1999 | 420 | #587 | 0.24 |
| 1998 | 466 | #539 | 0.26 |
| 1997 | 327 | #667 | 0.19 |
| 1996 | 245 | #823 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 178 | #1,023 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 134 | #1,272 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 129 | #1,309 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 117 | #1,404 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 95 | #1,599 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,852 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 83 | #1,657 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,696 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,638 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,681 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 84 | #1,478 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 51 | #2,009 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,943 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,798 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 59 | #1,857 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 116 | #1,165 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 110 | #1,195 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,496 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 84 | #1,353 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,807 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 73 | #1,435 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,697 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 65 | #1,471 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 48 | #1,797 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,704 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 52 | #1,747 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,236 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,757 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,832 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 33 | #2,040 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,001 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,321 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,671 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,242 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,915 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,831 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,199 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,675 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,124 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,374 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,193 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,288 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,069 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maia, and how old are they?
18,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 18,200 Americans ever recorded as Maia. The median Maia alive today is 16 years old; half are between 7 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 14,491 people named Maia (14,442 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,018 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 125 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 853 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,550 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,960 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Maia born?
The states with the most babies named Maia are California, Florida and Texas, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 118 | #279 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 92 | #205 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 61 | #526 | 0.6× |
| New York | 59 | #287 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 30 | #347 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #378 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 26 | #319 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 24 | #342 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 23 | #257 | 1.5× |
| Washington | 17 | #423 | 1.4× |
Where Maia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maia is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1950 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 398,711 babies since 1880, Maia is the fifth most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 715 of their 5,414 babies (13%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maia and names like it
- Compare Maia and MayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaia peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maia since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Maia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Maia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.