Maiah
Maiah was given to 33 girls in 2025, #4,314 among girls’ names; 1,086 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Maiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maiah?
#4,314 among girls’ names, 2025
Maiah fell from #3,636 in 2015 to #4,314 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.1 to 20.5 per million.
63 babies in 1998, the peak
Maiah peaked in 1998, when 63 girls were given it, #2,267 among girls’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,314 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,236 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,821 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,371 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,205 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,506 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,614 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,518 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,522 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,632 | 24.3 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,636 | 24.1 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,889 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,837 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,499 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,039 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,308 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,653 | 24.0 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,089 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,180 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,324 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,295 | 25.4 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,668 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,780 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,084 | 26.2 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,176 | 24.4 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,310 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,609 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,267 | 35.7 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,191 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,678 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,138 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,288 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,823 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,193 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maiah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maiah, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,086 Americans ever recorded as Maiah. The median Maiah alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 887 people named Maiah (885 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 917 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 59 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 591 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 425 |
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 Maiah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,806 | 0.7× |
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 Maiah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Maiah?
Maiah is a less common spelling of Maya: SSA has recorded 1,086 Maiah and 123,750 Maya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 158,646 babies since 1880, Maiah is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 4,722 babies (<1%), again the seventh most given.
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 Maiah
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 Maiah and names like it
- Compare Maiah and MayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaiah peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maiah since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Maiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.