Maja

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Maja: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Maja: Recorded since 1960, it reached #16 in 2009, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
131times a registrar ranked it
66years from first to last
#16highest recorded position
31groupings it qualifies for
20names it appears alongside

What stands out in Maja's record

Held a top-100 place for 30 years running. Names by top-100 run
Shares a published list with another name across 61 years. Longest shared records

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1914
1997	#2152
1998	#1571
1999	#1473
2000	#1475
2001	#1359
2002	#1245
2003	#933
2004	#1012
2005	#951
2006	#456
2007	#282
2008	#160
2009	#135
2010	#134
2011	#128
2012	#129
2013	#134
2014	#168
2015	#173
2016	#183
2017	#173
2018	#192
2019	#197
2020	#215
2021	#314
2022	#302
2023	#362
2024	#425

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 61 of the 66 years from 1960 to 2025.

In 2025: #27 among girls in Norway, #247 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1960–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1960
First recorded at #444 among girls in Norway in 1960 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1960–2025
Highest recorded position: #16 among girls in Norway, in 2009 (recorded 1960–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #27 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Maja appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 61 years beginning in 1960, and has registered 6,746 births with the name.

Maja across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Maja's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#444 (1960)	#16 (2009)	#27 (2025)	61 of 66	6,746 (1960–2025)	275 (2009)
England and Wales · Girls	#1914 (1996)	#128 (2011)	#425 (2024)	29 of 29	5,375 (1996–2024)	449 (2011)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#655 (2003)	#54 (2009)	#247 (2025)	22 of 23	1,244 (2003–2025)	133 (2009)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#332 (2006)	#106 (2011)	#253 (2024)	18 of 19	211 (2006–2024)	23 (2011)

Maja by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Maja in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	25	5 of 10	5
1970s	181	10 of 10	18
1980s	556	10 of 10	56
1990s	889	10 of 10	89
2000s	1,943	10 of 10	194
2010sbusiest	2,079	10 of 10	208
2020s	1,073	6 of 10	179

Across Norway · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 208 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2008 and 2009, when recorded births rose by 70, from 205 to 275.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Maja appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1960 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #16 in Norway in 2009.

Maja's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#425	101	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#362	116	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#302	148	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#314	149	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#215	226	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#197	248	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#192	277	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#173	316	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#183	296	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#173	315	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#168	326	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#134	396	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#129	434	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#128	449	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#134	427	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#135	409	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#160	331	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#282	168	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#456	85	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#951	28	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1012	24	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#933	26	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1245	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1359	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1475	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1571	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#253	6	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#246	6	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#178	11	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#238	7	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#164	13	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#137	16	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#155	15	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#156	13	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#150	13	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#115	20	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#106	23	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#130	18	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#113	21	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#198	10	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#245	7	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#332	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#27	178	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#22	193	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#28	175	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#30	151	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#28	170	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#19	206	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#30	168	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#24	190	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#22	200	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#27	196	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#27	194	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#25	207	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#24	205	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#24	217	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#18	244	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#18	258	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#16	275	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#30	205	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#24	221	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#30	206	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#27	206	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#31	197	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#28	193	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#48	146	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#50	137	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#45	157	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#61	117	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#65	106	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#85	97	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#78	108	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#110	73	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#105	79	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#108	79	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#98	85	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#123	69	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#108	76	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#92	87	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#82	93	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#118	62	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#130	52	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#131	52	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#170	36	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#143	44	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#138	49	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#161	37	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#144	44	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#167	34	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#171	32	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#221	22	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#232	20	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#275	16	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#252	19	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#284	15	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#441	8	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#454	7	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#413	8	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#567	4	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#464	6	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#482	5	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#465	5	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#444	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#247	17	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#243	17	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#195	24	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#190	25	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#264	16	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#123	45	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#116	49	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#122	48	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#116	52	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#91	69	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#73	96	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#71	94	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#60	114	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#57	131	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#54	132	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#54	133	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#73	96	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#110	53	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#220	20	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#244	15	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1960 and 2025, ranked in 61 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #16, first reached in 2009.

It held a top-100 place in 33 years, 30 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 449 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 64 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Maizy · #1117, 22y
Maj · #150, 42y
Majd · #829, 16y
Majed · #1765, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ashley · #17, 62y
Gemma · #17, 62y
Graeme · #18, 60y
Audrey · #19, 62y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Brendan · #16, 62y
Katrina · #16, 63y
Niall · #16, 62y
Ashley · #17, 62y

Comparisons involving Maja

Existing comparison pages where Maja and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Maja in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Eva vs Maja
Over 61 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maja rose about as far as Eva fell — from #13 and #444 in 1960 to #22 and #27 in 2025.
Eva · Maja · 61 shared years, 1960–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Line vs Maja
Over 61 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maja rose about as far as Line fell — from #149 and #444 in 1960 to #357 and #27 in 2025.
Line · Maja · 61 shared years, 1960–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Maja vs Åse
Over 61 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maja rose about as far as Åse fell — from #444 and #39 in 1960 to #27 and #93 in 2025.
Maja · Åse · 61 shared years, 1960–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Order changes

Pairs where Maja and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Anne vs Maja
In Norway · Girls, Maja moved into the top 50 at #28 in 2003 as Anne fell out of it to #55, having been #47 the year before.
Anne · Maja · 61 shared years, 1960–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2003 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Maja measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Maja at its highest position.

Stine vs Maja
Over 61 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maja rose about as far as Stine fell — from #215 and #444 in 1960 to #384 and #27 in 2025.
Stine · Maja · 61 shared years, 1960–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Maja vs Tina
Over 61 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maja rose about as far as Tina fell — from #444 and #308 in 1960 to #27 and #488 in 2025.
Maja · Tina · 61 shared years, 1960–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Maja vs Cecilie
Over 60 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maja rose about as far as Cecilie fell — from #444 and #207 in 1960 to #22 and #452 in 2024.
Maja · Cecilie · 60 shared years, 1960–2024 · Mirrored each other
See the 2024 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Maja was ranked #16 in Norway · Girls in 2009. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Maja and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Maja without appearing here.

Maja moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1475 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1359 and #3262.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1914 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #2152 and #3824.
Suzanne Compare
In 2005 they stood at #951 and #745 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #456 and #1585.
Diane Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1475 and #1475 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1359 and #2466.

Moved ahead of Maja

Croía Compare
In 2019 they stood at #123 and #162 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2020 that had become #264 and #95.
Olive Compare
In 2020 they stood at #246 and #397 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2021 that had become #350 and #190.
Nora Compare
In 2017 they stood at #164 and #190 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2018 that had become #238 and #151.
Harper Compare
In 2013 they stood at #134 and #160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #168 and #89.

Moved the opposite way to Maja

Åse Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maja went from #444 to #27 while Åse went from #39 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maja went from #444 to #27 while Aud went from #41 to #427.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maja went from #444 to #27 while Bjørg went from #35 to #369.
Else Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maja went from #444 to #27 while Else went from #60 to #191.

Moved the same way as Maja

Andrea Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maja went from #444 to #27 and Andrea from #338 to #98.
Anna Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maja went from #444 to #27 and Anna from #78 to #23.
Charlotte Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maja went from #444 to #27 and Charlotte from #395 to #162.
Elise Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maja went from #444 to #27 and Elise from #228 to #63.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1960 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #16 in Norway in 2009. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Maja

Maja at a glance

What stands out in Maja's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Maja across 4 official records

Maja by decade in Norway · Girls

Maja appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Comparisons involving Maja

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Maja

Maja and the names beside it

Maja moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Maja

Moved the opposite way to Maja

Moved the same way as Maja

Maja at a glance

What stands out in Maja's record

Maja across 4 official records

Maja by decade in Norway · Girls

Maja appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Comparisons involving Maja

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Maja

Maja and the names beside it

Maja moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Maja

Moved the opposite way to Maja

Moved the same way as Maja