Maya

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Maya: Recorded since 1961, its highest recorded position is #15, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

7registrars recorded it
183times a registrar ranked it
65years from first to last
#15highest recorded position
31groupings it qualifies for
31names it appears alongside

What stands out in Maya's record

Held a top-100 place for 25 years running. Names by top-100 run
England and Wales registered 1,592 births with the name in 2024, its largest count from any one registrar. Names by yearly birth count
Held at least one birth in every 2,000 for 21 years. Names by sustained share
Appears alongside 31 other names across 6 kinds of recorded relationship. All recorded relationships

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#259
1997	#229
1998	#173
1999	#125
2000	#110
2001	#107
2002	#103
2003	#111
2004	#85
2005	#98
2006	#79
2007	#78
2008	#69
2009	#66
2010	#57
2011	#58
2012	#53
2013	#51
2014	#45
2015	#37
2016	#39
2017	#40
2018	#37
2019	#34
2020	#32
2021	#29
2022	#28
2023	#29
2024	#15

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 65 years from 1961 to 2025.

In 2025: #40 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #53 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, #86 among girls in Norway.

Official data from 7 national registrars across 7 regions, 1961–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1961
First recorded at #497 among girls in Norway in 1961 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #15 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #53 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 2025.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Maya appears in 6 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 61 years beginning in 1961, and has registered 2,125 births with the name.

Maya across 6 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.

Maya'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	#497 (1961)	#66 (2016)	#86 (2025)	61 of 65	2,125 (1961–2025)	96 (2016)
England and Wales · Girls	#259 (1996)	#15 (2024)	#15 (2024)	29 of 29	26,445 (1996–2024)	1,592 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#576 (1997)	#17 (2024)	#40 (2025)	29 of 29	2,102 (1997–2025)	187 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#227 (1999)	#47 (2024)	#47 (2024)	24 of 26	466 (1999–2024)	37 (2024)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#92 (2001)	#28 (2021)	#53 (2025)	25 of 25	3,209 (2001–2025)	197 (2021)
New Zealand · Girls	#100 (2003)	#68 (2004)	#72 (2023)	14 of 21	663 (2003–2023)	58 (2004)

Maya 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 Maya in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	31	6 of 10	5
1970s	50	9 of 10	6
1980s	97	10 of 10	10
1990s	132	10 of 10	13
2000s	615	10 of 10	62
2010sbusiest	788	10 of 10	79
2020s	412	6 of 10	69

Across Norway · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 79 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births rose by 28, from 64 to 92.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Maya 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 7 regions, from 1961 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #15 in England and Wales in 2024.

Maya'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	#15	1,592	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#29	1,255	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#28	1,406	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#29	1,433	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#32	1,331	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#34	1,375	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#37	1,260	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#40	1,257	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#39	1,374	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#37	1,354	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#45	1,200	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#51	1,120	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#53	1,072	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#58	1,072	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#57	1,061	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#66	942	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#69	964	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#78	759	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#79	735	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#98	527	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#85	609	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#111	443	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#103	444	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#107	452	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#110	454	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#125	383	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#173	250	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#229	176	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#259	145	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	female	#53	124	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	New South Wales, Australia	female	#39	158	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New South Wales, Australia	female	#59	113	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	New South Wales, Australia	female	#48	153	Insufficient	Not yet available
2021	New South Wales, Australia	female	#28	197	Insufficient	Not yet available
2020	New South Wales, Australia	female	#50	131	Insufficient	Not yet available
2019	New South Wales, Australia	female	#51	126	Insufficient	Not yet available
2018	New South Wales, Australia	female	#50	130	Insufficient	Not yet available
2017	New South Wales, Australia	female	#40	142	Insufficient	Not yet available
2016	New South Wales, Australia	female	#50	131	Insufficient	Not yet available
2015	New South Wales, Australia	female	#55	120	Insufficient	Not yet available
2014	New South Wales, Australia	female	#43	159	Insufficient	Not yet available
2013	New South Wales, Australia	female	#63	107	Insufficient	Not yet available
2012	New South Wales, Australia	female	#50	137	Insufficient	Not yet available
2011	New South Wales, Australia	female	#39	165	Insufficient	Not yet available
2010	New South Wales, Australia	female	#46	143	Insufficient	Not yet available
2009	New South Wales, Australia	female	#53	128	Insufficient	Not yet available
2008	New South Wales, Australia	female	#51	130	Insufficient	Not yet available
2007	New South Wales, Australia	female	#54	129	Insufficient	Not yet available
2006	New South Wales, Australia	female	#58	124	Insufficient	Not yet available
2005	New South Wales, Australia	female	#72	102	Insufficient	Not yet available
2004	New South Wales, Australia	female	#74	96	Insufficient	Not yet available
2003	New South Wales, Australia	female	#74	96	Insufficient	Not yet available
2002	New South Wales, Australia	female	#87	87	Insufficient	Not yet available
2001	New South Wales, Australia	female	#92	81	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	female	#72	54	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	female	#90	45	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	female	#88	47	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	female	#91	43	High	Verified
2018	New Zealand	female	#98	42	High	Verified
2017	New Zealand	female	#91	43	High	Verified
2012	New Zealand	female	#98	46	High	Verified
2010	New Zealand	female	#91	46	High	Verified
2008	New Zealand	female	#76	55	High	Verified
2007	New Zealand	female	#87	50	High	Verified
2006	New Zealand	female	#90	46	High	Verified
2005	New Zealand	female	#73	48	High	Verified
2004	New Zealand	female	#68	58	High	Verified
2003	New Zealand	female	#100	40	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#47	37	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#110	19	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#64	33	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#81	27	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#78	27	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#94	23	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#95	26	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#99	23	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#88	29	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#101	24	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#147	15	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#95	26	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#115	20	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#132	18	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#137	16	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#113	21	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#131	17	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#131	16	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#137	15	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#177	10	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#183	9	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#225	6	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#339	3	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#227	6	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#86	70	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#80	74	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#77	79	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#85	65	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#80	69	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#99	55	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#99	63	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#88	70	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#77	82	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#66	96	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#94	69	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#76	82	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#71	92	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#106	64	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#82	83	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#77	87	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#83	84	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#96	73	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#106	64	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#85	81	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#85	78	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#95	69	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#120	54	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#153	36	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#148	41	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#164	35	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#201	26	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#295	14	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#354	11	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#288	15	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#338	12	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#328	13	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#425	9	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#514	7	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#479	8	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#303	17	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#292	17	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#374	12	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#537	7	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#373	12	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#450	9	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#474	8	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#452	8	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#433	9	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#446	8	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#500	7	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#532	6	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#519	6	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#402	9	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#567	5	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#614	4	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#512	6	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#598	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#613	4	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#497	6	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#511	5	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#400	8	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#533	4	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#512	5	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#484	5	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#497	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#40	108	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#17	187	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#34	128	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#45	125	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#51	117	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#54	99	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#55	105	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#65	98	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#71	92	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#55	109	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#66	101	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#64	108	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#70	97	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#80	81	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#74	92	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#83	81	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#89	80	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#103	64	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#99	61	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#135	40	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#178	25	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#149	30	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#233	15	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#229	16	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#204	18	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#251	13	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#392	5	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#425	4	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#19	159	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
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 7 registrars between 1961 and 2025, ranked in 61 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #15, first reached in 2024.

It held a top-100 place in 25 years, 25 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 1,592 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 63 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.

May-Britt · #92, 47y
May-Liss · #275, 32y
Maya-Rose · #1224, 15y
Mayah · #366, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 7 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.

Renee · #15, 63y
Vanessa · #15, 63y
Alexandra · #16, 64y
Isabelle · #17, 59y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

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

Renee · #15, 63y
Siobhán · #15, 62y
Vanessa · #15, 63y
Brendan · #16, 62y

Comparisons involving Maya

Existing comparison pages where Maya 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 Maya in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Kristine vs Maya
Over 61 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maya rose about as far as Kristine fell — from #140 and #497 in 1961 to #244 and #86 in 2025.
Kristine · Maya · 61 shared years, 1961–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Maya vs Åse
Over 61 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maya rose about as far as Åse fell — from #497 and #40 in 1961 to #86 and #93 in 2025.
Maya · Åse · 61 shared years, 1961–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Maya vs Tina
Over 61 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maya rose about as far as Tina fell — from #497 and #227 in 1961 to #86 and #488 in 2025.
Maya · Tina · 61 shared years, 1961–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Order changes

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

Jasmine vs Maya
In New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Maya moved into the top 50 at #28 in 2021 as Jasmine fell out of it to #83, having been #47 the year before.
Jasmine · Maya · 24 shared years, 2001–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2021 New South Wales, Australia ranking
Elsie vs Maya
In New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Elsie moved into the top 50 at #35 in 2023 as Maya fell out of it to #59, having been #48 the year before.
Elsie · Maya · 13 shared years, 2013–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2023 New South Wales, Australia ranking
Maisie vs Maya
In England and Wales · Girls, Maya moved into the top 50 at #37 in 2015 as Maisie fell out of it to #53, having been #44 the year before.
Maisie · Maya · 29 shared years, 1996–2024 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2015 England and Wales ranking

Maya was ranked #15 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. 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.

Maya 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 Maya without appearing here.

Maya moved ahead of

Teresa Compare
In 1999 they stood at #514 and #424 in Norway · Girls; by 2000 that had become #164 and #573.
Emilie Compare
In 2000 they stood at #392 and #392 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2001 that had become #204 and #606.
Ingrid Compare
In 2000 they stood at #425 and #425 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2001 that had become #204 and #606.
Eabha Compare
In 2017 they stood at #71 and #50 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2018 that had become #65 and #436.

Moved ahead of Maya

Mia Compare
In 2001 they stood at #227 and #259 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2002 that had become #339 and #47.
Frida Compare
In 1971 they stood at #497 and #531 in Norway · Girls; by 1972 that had become #613 and #344.
Emilie Compare
In 1984 they stood at #474 and #596 in Norway · Girls; by 1985 that had become #450 and #243.
Mathilde Compare
In 1986 they stood at #373 and #450 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #537 and #356.

Moved the opposite way to Maya

Åse Compare
Between 1961 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maya went from #497 to #86 while Åse went from #40 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1961 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maya went from #497 to #86 while Aud went from #42 to #427.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1961 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maya went from #497 to #86 while Bjørg went from #38 to #369.
Else Compare
Between 1961 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maya went from #497 to #86 while Else went from #62 to #191.

Moved the same way as Maya

Andrea Compare
Between 1961 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maya went from #497 to #86 and Andrea from #333 to #98.
Anna Compare
Between 1961 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maya went from #497 to #86 and Anna from #78 to #23.
Elise Compare
Between 1961 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maya went from #497 to #86 and Elise from #254 to #63.
Ellinor Compare
Between 1961 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maya went from #497 to #86 and Ellinor from #134 to #7.

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 7 regions, from 1961 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #15 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Maya

Maya at a glance

What stands out in Maya's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Maya across 6 official records

Maya by decade in Norway · Girls

Maya 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 Maya

Longest shared records

Order changes

Names published alongside Maya

Maya and the names beside it

Maya moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Maya

Moved the opposite way to Maya

Moved the same way as Maya

Maya at a glance

What stands out in Maya's record

Maya across 6 official records

Maya by decade in Norway · Girls

Maya 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 Maya

Longest shared records

Order changes

Names published alongside Maya

Maya and the names beside it

Maya moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Maya

Moved the opposite way to Maya

Moved the same way as Maya