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How popular is the name Maida?

Births per year, rank history and how many Maidas are alive today.

Maida (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 2006th in 2025 and given to 14 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2019, when 26 babies were given the name, the 1252nd most popular that year. Maida is one spelling of a name also recorded as Meda; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Maida you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Maidas born in England and Wales are between 7 and 17, and there are at least 500 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Maida - on average, only one in every 630 such rooms contains a Maida.

How many babies are named Maida each year?

Includes all spellings: Maida, Meda. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Maida spelling rank?

Where does the Meda 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.