Maja
Maja was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,746 among girls’ names; 2,049 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,010 Americans named Maja and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maja mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Maja is “a female given name”
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa).
/ˈma.ja/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maja?
#3,746 among girls’ names, 2025
Maja fell from #2,874 in 2015 to #3,746 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.2 to 24.9 per million.
84 babies in 2009, the peak
Maja peaked in 2009, when 84 girls were given it, #2,329 among girls’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,746 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,012 | 22.8 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,942 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,147 | 31.7 |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,055 | 32.9 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,885 | 22.9 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,072 | 31.6 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,188 | 30.0 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,283 | 28.4 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,045 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,874 | 34.2 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,632 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,246 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,994 | 32.4 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,315 | 46.0 |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,445 | 43.3 |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,329 | 45.7 |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,549 | 39.1 |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,380 | 41.6 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,473 | 39.4 |
| 2005 | 75 | #2,370 | 40.6 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,369 | 24.5 |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,624 | 33.4 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,308 | 23.4 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,791 | 29.4 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,880 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,545 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,151 | 22.6 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,686 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,395 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,826 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,371 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,138 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,892 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,833 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,002 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,776 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,582 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,208 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,480 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,287 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,106 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,743 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,964 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,130 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,082 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,338 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,857 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,559 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,791 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,749 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,353 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,846 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,216 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,343 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,393 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,345 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,379 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,491 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,721 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,595 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,474 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,303 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,284 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,974 | 3.0 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,195 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maja has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maja, and how old are they?
2,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,049 Americans ever recorded as Maja. The median Maja alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 3,065 people named Maja (3,035 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,783 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 24 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 189 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 259 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 933 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 605 |
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 Maja born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 5 | #1,542 | 3.4× |
Where Maja is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maja is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1953 it was given 3.4 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 Maja 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,238 babies since 1880, Maja is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 48 babies (83%), again the 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 Maja
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 Maja and names like it
- Compare Maja and MaijaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaja peaked in 2009.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maja since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Maja: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Maja.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maja alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.