Maia Girl
How popular is Maia?
#433 girl name in 2025
715 baby girls were named Maia in the US in 2025, making it the 433rd most popular girl name.
Maia popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #433 for girls (▲ 27 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 715 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+27% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #552 in 2015, #497 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (752 girls) |
| Highest rank | #420 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1950 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.5% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Maia counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Maya family of names ranked #62 for girls in 2025 (#52 the year before), with 4,521 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Maia is most popular
Babies named Maia per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Hawaii: 3.6 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- District of Columbia: 1.1 per 1,000 (13 girls)
- Rhode Island: 1.0 per 1,000 (13 girls)
- Florida: 0.9 per 1,000 (395 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.9 per 1,000 (108 girls)
Maia by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 58 | #3,103 |
| 1960s | 217 | #2,021 |
| 1970s | 668 | #1,193 |
| 1980s | 728 | #1,161 |
| 1990s | 2,188 | #537 |
| 2000s | 5,057 | #508 |
| 2010s | 5,123 | #488 |
| 2020s | 4,161 | #420 |
Girl names about as popular as Maia
Questions
- Is Maia a boy or girl name?
- Maia is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Maia were girls.
- How popular is the name Maia?
- 715 baby girls were named Maia in the US in 2025, making it the 433rd most popular girl name.
- When was Maia most popular?
- Maia peaked in 2022, when 752 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #420 in 2022.
- How many people are named Maia?
- 18,200 babies have been named Maia in the US since 1880. We estimate about 17,995 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 16.
- Where is Maia most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Maia was most common in Hawaii, at 3.6 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.