Máia

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Máia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa).

rarermore common
  • MDMoldova1 in 833(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 11K
  • SISlovenia1 in 153as Maja

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Máia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

188,657 named Maja, 2026

Sources
67 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 833 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MayaLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maja in SE Sweden, SI Slovenia, ES Spain and 1 more and Maya in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa).

Sources 7

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 33 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Máia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Máia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—188,657as Maja1 in 203189K——
US United States—103,000as Maya1 in 3.2K103KMaya57
SE Sweden—29,952as Maja1 in 34130KMaja10
BR Brazil—23,446as Maya1 in 9K23K——
HR Croatia—20,159as Maja1 in 21020K——
SI Slovenia—13,767as Maja1 in 15314KMaja5
DK Denmark—13,708as Maja1 in 42814K——
ES Spain—4,5271 in 11K9.2KMaja6
MD Moldova—4,0391 in 8334K——
HU Hungary#782——327Maja67

188,657 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); e-services.md — living population register; KSH — births by given name. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Máia is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Maia, Maïa, Maía, Māia, Mai'A

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Máia under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Máia mean, and where does it come from?
From Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 5 other sources.
Is Máia a male or female name?
Máia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Máia have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 189 thousand people named Maja, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Máia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Máia is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 833 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Máia?
In Spain, the national register counted 4,527 people named Máia, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
How common is Máia compared with other names?
In Hungary, Máia is the 782nd most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Máia” — the 782nd most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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