Maya — #51 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Maya

The Social Security Administration has registered 119,839 babies named Maya between 1940 and 2024, spanning 85 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maya currently holds the #51 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 5,047 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Maya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 40,029 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Maya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 21,274 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Maya in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Maya 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 119,839 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.