Mayah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Mayah: Recorded since 1998, it reached #366 in 2010, and it stood at #1,160 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#366highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3142
2000	#2746
2002	#2868
2003	#2436
2005	#1934
2006	#1435
2007	#2233
2008	#1247
2009	#1752
2010	#1584
2011	#1807
2012	#1342
2013	#1956
2014	#1299
2015	#1168
2016	#1749
2017	#1296
2018	#1526
2019	#1634
2020	#1397
2021	#1785
2022	#1452
2023	#1469
2024	#1160

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 England and Wales in 24 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1469 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3142 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2010–2015
Highest recorded position: #366 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2010 (recorded 2010–2015).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1160 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Mayah appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 412 births with the name.

Mayah across 3 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.

Mayah'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
England and Wales · Girls	#3142 (1998)	#1160 (2024)	#1160 (2024)	24 of 27	412 (1998–2024)	29 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#873 (2017)	#856 (2023)	#856 (2023)	2 of 7	6 (2017–2023)	3 (2017)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#366 (2010)	#366 (2010)	#426 (2015)	2 of 6	7 (2010–2015)	4 (2010)

Mayah by decade in England and Wales · 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 Mayah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	4	1 of 10	4
2000s	93	8 of 10	12
2010s	206	10 of 10	21
2020sbusiest	109	5 of 10	22

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 22 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Mayah 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 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #366 in Northern Ireland in 2010.

Mayah'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	#1160	29	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1469	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1452	21	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1785	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1397	22	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1634	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1526	20	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1296	26	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1168	29	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1299	25	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1956	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1342	24	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1807	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1584	18	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1247	23	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2233	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1435	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1934	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2436	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#366	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #366, first reached in 2010.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 29 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 19 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.

Maya · #15, 61y
Maya-Rose · #1224, 15y
Mayan · #1767, 22y
Mayar · #785, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Ava-Mae · #366, 19y
Karly · #366, 22y
Yvie · #366, 19y
Abeeha · #365, 20y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Asad · #366, 29y
Karly · #366, 22y
Yvie · #366, 19y
Aliya · #367, 30y

Mayah was ranked #366 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2010. 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.

Mayah 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 Mayah without appearing here.

Mayah moved ahead of

Lene Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2746 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1934 and #4798.
Finley Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2233 and #1965 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1247 and #3860.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1934 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1435 and #3548.
Kristine Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2436 and #2191 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1435 and #3548.

Moved ahead of Mayah

Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2746 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2868 and #938.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1168 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1749 and #768.
Harper Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1247 and #1391 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1752 and #1171.
Frida Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1435 and #1862 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2233 and #1656.

Moved the opposite way to Mayah

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mayah went from #3142 to #1160 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mayah went from #3142 to #1160 while Aimee went from #68 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mayah went from #3142 to #1160 while Aisling went from #391 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mayah went from #3142 to #1160 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Mayah

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mayah went from #3142 to #1160 and Ada from #3142 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mayah went from #3142 to #1160 and Alma from #2165 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mayah went from #3142 to #1160 and Alyssa from #561 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mayah went from #3142 to #1160 and Amalie from #3848 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #366 in Northern Ireland in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mayah

Mayah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mayah across 3 official records

Mayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mayah appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Mayah at a glance

Mayah across 3 official records

Mayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mayah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Mayah

Mayah and the names beside it

Mayah moved ahead of

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