Maia
#433 for girls in 2025, 715 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 752 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 18,200since 1950
Maia over time
Rank among girls' names. Maia has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #433 | 715 |
| 2024 | #460 | 682 |
| 2023 | #459 | 672 |
| 2022 | #420 | 752 |
| 2021 | #435 | 724 |
| 2020 | #497 | 616 |
| 2019 | #525 | 587 |
| 2018 | #502 | 620 |
| 2017 | #488 | 639 |
| 2016 | #570 | 545 |
| 2015 | #552 | 562 |
| 2014 | #627 | 456 |
| 2013 | #640 | 440 |
| 2012 | #719 | 386 |
| 2011 | #680 | 413 |
| 2010 | #620 | 475 |
| 2009 | #588 | 512 |
| 2008 | #634 | 487 |
| 2007 | #611 | 492 |
| 2006 | #508 | 598 |
| 2005 | #523 | 558 |
| 2004 | #558 | 512 |
| 2003 | #562 | 494 |
| 2002 | #535 | 512 |
| 2001 | #602 | 417 |
| 2000 | #549 | 475 |
| 1999 | #587 | 420 |
| 1998 | #537 | 466 |
| 1997 | #667 | 327 |
| 1996 | #823 | 245 |
| 1995 | #1,023 | 178 |
| 1994 | #1,269 | 134 |
| 1993 | #1,308 | 129 |
| 1992 | #1,402 | 117 |
| 1991 | #1,599 | 95 |
| 1990 | #1,847 | 77 |
| 1989 | #1,651 | 83 |
| 1988 | #1,686 | 76 |
| 1987 | #1,630 | 75 |
| 1986 | #1,669 | 70 |
| 1985 | #1,473 | 84 |
| 1984 | #1,991 | 51 |
| 1983 | #1,927 | 53 |
| 1982 | #1,786 | 61 |
| 1981 | #1,848 | 59 |
| 1980 | #1,161 | 116 |
| 1979 | #1,193 | 110 |
| 1978 | #1,487 | 76 |
| 1977 | #1,345 | 84 |
| 1976 | #1,794 | 52 |
| 1975 | #1,430 | 73 |
| 1974 | #1,688 | 54 |
| 1973 | #1,458 | 65 |
| 1972 | #1,786 | 48 |
| 1971 | #1,686 | 54 |
| 1970 | #1,736 | 52 |
| 1969 | #2,208 | 33 |
| 1968 | #2,708 | 22 |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 |
| 1966 | #2,022 | 33 |
| 1965 | #2,938 | 18 |
| 1964 | #3,244 | 16 |
| 1963 | #2,619 | 22 |
| 1962 | #2,210 | 29 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 |
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 |
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| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Maia! It came in at #4,738, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Maia is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#282 · 1 in 1,112
- Minnesota#465 · 1 in 4,629
- Michigan#520 · 1 in 4,583
- Pennsylvania#818 · 1 in 9,773
- New York#914 · 1 in 8,244
Best ever in a state: #50 in Hawaii, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #282 | 5 | 1 in 1,112 |
| Minnesota | #465 | 6 | 1 in 4,629 |
| Michigan | #520 | 13 | 1 in 4,583 |
| Pennsylvania | #818 | 7 | 1 in 9,773 |
| New York | #914 | 12 | 1 in 8,244 |
| Ohio | #1,057 | 5 | 1 in 14,418 |
| California | #1,262 | 12 | 1 in 13,611 |
| Texas | #1,355 | 7 | 1 in 15,873 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Maia
- 27 spots since 2024 (#460 → #433)
- 64 spots since 2020 (#497 → #433)
- 119 spots since 2015 (#552 → #433)
- Biggest jump: 200 spots in 1996 (#1,023 → #823)
- Biggest drop: 103 spots in 2007 (#508 → #611)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 2022 at #420 (752 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1996–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,181 girls born in 2022 were named Maia (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,248 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 28.1% of all girls named Maia (5,123) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 58 | #3,104 (1959) | #4,921 |
| 1960s | 217 | #2,022 (1966) | #2,821 |
| 1970s | 668 | #1,193 (1979) | #1,560 |
| 1980s | 728 | #1,161 (1980) | #1,682 |
| 1990s | 2,188 | #537 (1998) | #1,106 |
| 2000s | 5,057 | #508 (2006) | #567 |
| 2010s | 5,123 | #488 (2017) | #592 |
| 2020s | 4,161 | #420 (2022) | #451 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Maia in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 14,593 of them was named Maia, which outranked 90.0% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,184Rhea111
- #1,184Shenika111
- #1,184Tiesha111
- #1,193Maia110
- #1,193Dallas110
- #1,193Lucretia110
- #1,193Season110
- #1,198Angella109
- #1,198Aracely109
- #1,198Bonita109
Tied with 4 names at #1,193; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.