Mayah
Mayah was given to 61 girls in 2025, #2,802 among girls’ names; 2,973 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,950 Americans named Mayah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mayah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mayah?
#2,802 among girls’ names, 2025
Mayah fell from #1,364 in 2015 to #2,802 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 97.5 to 38.0 per million.
174 babies in 2015, the peak
Mayah peaked in 2015, when 174 girls were given it, #1,364 among girls’ names. The 61 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,802 | 38.0 |
| 2024 | 84 | #2,243 | 51.8 |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,304 | 49.9 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,547 | 42.7 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,409 | 45.7 |
| 2020 | 87 | #2,112 | 53.8 |
| 2019 | 100 | #1,958 | 59.6 |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,734 | 70.0 |
| 2017 | 143 | #1,539 | 82.8 |
| 2016 | 134 | #1,634 | 75.6 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 174 | #1,364 | 97.5 |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,647 | 72.8 |
| 2013 | 123 | #1,702 | 70.1 |
| 2012 | 128 | #1,667 | 72.7 |
| 2011 | 140 | #1,568 | 79.6 |
| 2010 | 147 | #1,526 | 82.7 |
| 2009 | 139 | #1,618 | 75.7 |
| 2008 | 137 | #1,650 | 72.5 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,951 | 55.1 |
| 2006 | 116 | #1,792 | 61.0 |
| 2005 | 119 | #1,676 | 64.4 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,145 | 45.7 |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,892 | 53.1 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,690 | 31.7 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,679 | 31.1 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,882 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,967 | 25.4 |
| 1998 | 39 | #3,196 | 22.1 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,613 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,596 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,152 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,151 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,896 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,674 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,035 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,948 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,423 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,237 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mayah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mayah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mayah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mayah, and how old are they?
2,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,973 Americans ever recorded as Mayah. The median Mayah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,310 people named Mayah (2,308 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,519 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 108 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,370 |
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 Mayah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #2,218 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,327 | 1.0× |
Where Mayah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mayah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1988 it was given 1.4 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 Mayah 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 Mayah?
Mayah is a less common spelling of Maya: SSA has recorded 2,973 Mayah and 123,750 Maya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 214,291 babies since 1880, Mayah is the sixth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 4,817 babies (1.3%), again the sixth 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 Mayah
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 Mayah and names like it
- Compare Mayah and MayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMayah peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mayah since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Mayah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mayah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.