Maja
- #3,712 for girls in 2025, 40 births
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 81 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,049since 1953
Maja over time
Rank among girls' names. Maja has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #3,712 | 40 |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 |
| 2022 | #3,123 | 52 |
| 2021 | #3,037 | 54 |
| 2020 | #3,841 | 37 |
| 2019 | #3,043 | 53 |
| 2018 | #3,158 | 51 |
| 2017 | #3,247 | 49 |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 |
| 2014 | #3,585 | 43 |
| 2013 | #3,218 | 50 |
| 2012 | #2,978 | 57 |
| 2011 | #2,298 | 81 |
| 2010 | #2,427 | 77 |
| 2009 | #2,316 | 84 |
| 2008 | #2,538 | 74 |
| 2007 | #2,368 | 80 |
| 2006 | #2,459 | 75 |
| 2005 | #2,359 | 75 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 |
| 2003 | #2,610 | 61 |
| 2002 | #3,283 | 42 |
| 2001 | #2,766 | 53 |
| 2000 | #2,854 | 50 |
| 1999 | #3,509 | 35 |
| 1998 | #3,116 | 40 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 |
| 1995 | #3,780 | 28 |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 |
| 1987 | #4,122 | 20 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 |
| 1984 | #4,966 | 14 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #3,898 | 20 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 |
| 1977 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 |
| 1975 | #4,593 | 13 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 |
| 1972 | #4,091 | 14 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
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| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
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| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Maja! It came in at #5,673, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1958, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Maja is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| Illinois | #1,405 | 5 | 1 in 8,866 |
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See more about Maja
- 129 spots since 2020 (#3,841 → #3,712)
- 866 spots since 2015 (#2,846 → #3,712)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2011 at #2,298 (81 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,717 girls born in 2011 were named Maja (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 40,182 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.2% of all girls named Maja (639) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 11 | #5,566 (1959) | #5,620 |
| 1960s | 58 | #4,222 (1968) | #5,471 |
| 1970s | 143 | #3,486 (1977) | #4,398 |
| 1980s | 153 | #3,898 (1982) | #5,158 |
| 1990s | 221 | #3,116 (1998) | #4,961 |
| 2000s | 639 | #2,316 (2009) | #2,689 |
| 2010s | 577 | #2,298 (2011) | #2,981 |
| 2020s | 247 | #3,037 (2021) | #3,758 |
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.
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