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Girl's name · #62 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave
Maya is near its high-water mark: it reached #49 in 2023 and still ranked #62 in 2025. About 124,000 girls have carried it since 1940.
Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot and her husband, Jaron Varsano, chose the name for their second daughter, Maya, born in March 2017.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#20 in Scotland (2025) · #26 in Finland (other-lang.) (2025) · #28 in England & Wales (2025) · #38 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #40 in Ireland (2025) · #51 in Netherlands (2025) · #53 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #57 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #77 in France (2025) · #77 in Belgium (2025) · #77 in New Zealand (2025) · #83 in Austria (2025) and 8 more.
Among 1,040 notable people named Maya:
Entertainers appear 2.21× more often than among typical names — e.g. Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer (1925–2015).
Together with its spelling variants Maia (#433) and Mya (#444), Maya would rank around #39 with about 5,100 births last year — the newborns split about 72/14/14 across Maya, Maia, and Mya.
Similar names: Maia · Jade · Mariah · Amaya · Genesis · Madelyn
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