Girls' name · since 1990
Mayia
Mayia has 79 recorded births since 1990 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1998 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 79
- total births
- 1990–2009
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 68%
- born in that decade
79 girls have been named Mayia since 1990, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Mayia has 79 recorded births among girls since 1990, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1990 to 2009.
- 79 total births
- 1990–2009 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 68% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mayia's 79 recorded births place it above 59% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mayia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Mayia's SSA record in two at 1997 and the more recent half accounts for 65% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 35%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 1992, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1998 peak of 14, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Mayia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1990–2009
- Peak year (1998)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Mayia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Mayia's strongest decade.
54 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 68% of all-time use.
Mayia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
54 births
- 2000s
2000s
25 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 54 births (68% of all-time use).
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- Mayia's usage has stayed within range of its 1990s decade-level peak (54 total births) through the 2000s (25) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1990–2009 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mayia: Baby Name Since 1990 - 79 Births, Peak 1998." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mayia. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mayia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.