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How popular is the name Maia?
Births per year, rank history and how many Maias are alive today.
Maia (female), a spelling of Maya, sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 197th in 2025 with 255 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2018, when 309 babies were given the name, the 176th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2008, with 287 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 255 in 2005 before climbing back to the 197th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 6,400 babies have been named Maia in England and Wales since 1996.
Across all spellings of the name, the Maya you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old. Half of all Mayas born in England and Wales are between 6 and 18, and there are at least 39,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 12% chance that at least one of them will be called Maya.
How many babies are named Maia each year?
Includes all spellings: Maia, Maiya, Maya, Miah, Myah. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Maia spelling rank?
Where does the Maiya spelling rank?
Where does the Maya spelling rank?
Where does the Miah spelling rank?
Where does the Myah spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Maia most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Maya, peaked in 2024, when 1,950 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Maia spelling itself peaked in 2018, with 309 babies.
How many people are called Maia?
At least 39,000 people named Maia in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Maia?
Most living Maias are between 6 and 18; the most common age is about 5.
Is Maia becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.