Maya
For 2025 the count puts Maya at #62 nationwide, holding steady. Its record runs from 1940 through a 2006 peak, 123,587 children in all.
Maya’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Maya, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Maya since 1940
Maya peaked in 2006 at #57; #62 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Maya is most common
The state that gives Maya most often, per girls born there, is District of Columbia (0.84% in 2025); Vermont and Hawaii are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Maya
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Max
#180 in 2025 · Latin
Mia
#6 in 2025
Leah
#58 in 2025 · Hebrew
Zoey
#69 in 2025
Madelyn
#71 in 2025
Madeline
#81 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ian
#83 in 2025 · Hebrew
Mila
#43 in 2025 · Slavonic
Browse: names starting with M · all names
About Maya
Where does Maya rank right now?
For 2025 the count puts Maya at #62 nationwide, holding steady. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1940.
What is the recorded meaning of Maya?
The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Maya. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.
Which names sit near Maya?
Max, Mia and Leah sit nearest to Maya on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
Get Maya’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Maya earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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