Maja

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Polish: genitive singular of maj

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

/maja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Maja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Slovenia it is the 6th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 153(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 195
  • PLPoland1 in 203

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Maja 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 people, 2026

#626 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
302 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 153 (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MayaLatin(measured from records)
МайяCyrillic(measured from records)
מאיהHebrew(measured from records)
მაიაGeorgian(measured from records)
ՄայաArmenian(measured from records)
마야Hangul(measured from records)
ΜάγιαGreek(measured from records)
మ్యTelugu(measured from records)

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Майя in RU Russia, FI Finland, Maia in US United States and მაია in GE Georgia.

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)

genitive singular of maj

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

How Maja is read(measured from records)

Maja is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Croatian32%

    kvas, kvasac, germa

    as a wordrecorded as Serbo-CroatianSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

  • German12%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Maja in German.

  • English12%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Maja in English.

  • Polish9.9%

    genitive singular of maj

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Swedish8.4%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Maja in Swedish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maja 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 Maja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#190188,6571 in 203189KMaja180
US United States—103,000as Maya1 in 3.2K103KMaia302
RU Russia#139≈60,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K#103Майя169
GE Georgia#38046,875as მაია1 in 8547Kმაია76
RS Serbia#45≈36,000 est.≈1 in 195—Maja79
FI Finland#44729,075as Maija1 in 19243KМайя11
SI Slovenia#613,7671 in 15314KMaja87

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; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Maja is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swedish given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United States

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Mayya, Majå, Májá, Majã, Mãja

  • English given name166 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, India, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Maya, Mayae, Ma'Ya, Mäyä, Mãyã

  • Hungarian given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, India, United States, Serbia

    Also written Maya, Maia, Maïa, Máia, Máýâ

  • Spanish given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Serbia, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Majà, Majá, Mahah, Màja, Mája

  • Finnish given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, India, United States, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Maya, Màyà, Mäyä, Mäÿä, Mája

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Maǰa, Mája, Majâ, Majá, Majà

61 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Maja is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • German and Scandianvian: pet form of MARIA , or else from Latin Maia (see MAYA ).

    as a word

  • In tut-pro, to miss, fail, bad luck

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Cebuano, a pudding, usually made using cornstarch and coconut milk

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dlm, mine; first-person feminine singular possessive pronoun

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

192019401960198020002020Maja Michailowna Plissezkaja, b. 1925Maja Komorowska, b. 1937Maja Ostaszewska, b. 1972Maya Sar, b. 1981Maja Włoszczowska, b. 1983Maja Ognjenović, b. 1984Maya Yoshida, b. 1988Maja Keuc, b. 1992Maya Sakura, b. 1998Maja Chwalińska, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBok Maja,Hi Maja, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 93 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Maja
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—189K#37
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026189K#37
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—14K#9
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202514K#3
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)20253.9K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203K#5,552
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—889#846
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—523—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202540—
SI SloveniaSURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register)202433—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202030#5,552
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#15,860

Reference works 4

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Maja 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 it is most often spelled maja.
Where is Maja most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maja is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 153 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Maja mean, and where does it come from?
genitive singular of maj Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Maja a male or female name?
Maja 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.
How do you pronounce Maja?
A machine transcription gives /maja/ (IPA) for Croatian.
What are other forms of the name Maja?
In the etymology graph, Mae, Maureen and Marianne are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Maria and Mara.
How common is the name Maja?
In Poland, the national register counted 188,657 people named Maja in 2026, about 1 in 203 residents.
How common is Maja compared with other names?
In Poland, Maja is the 190th most common given name of 25,969 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, “Maja” — the 190th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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