Maia

surname · Latin script

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

Maia is a surname 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. Recorded meaning: places so called. The most important is first recorded in the form Amaia, and is probably of pre-Roman origin.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • GEGeorgia1 in 85as მაია
  • SISlovenia1 in 153as Maja

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 Maia 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

#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 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina, est.

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 Maja in PL Poland, SI Slovenia, RS Serbia, Майя in RU Russia, FI Finland, მაია in GE Georgia and Maiia in AR Argentina.

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)

places so called. The most important is first recorded in the form Amaia, and is probably of pre-Roman origin. Others may get their names from Port, maia flowering broom (from maio month of May) .

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maia 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 Maia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#190188,657as Maja1 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
AR Argentina—≈17,000 est.≈1 in 2.7K25KMaiia15
SI Slovenia#613,767as Maja1 in 15314KMaja87
ES Spain—4,5271 in 11K45KMaia69

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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)

Maia is also recorded as 5 other names, 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 Maïa, Maía, Māia, Mai'A, Máia

  • French surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Portugal

    Also written Maïa, Mayya, Maîa, Maÿya, Maía

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, United Kingdom, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Maía

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Maïa, Maiá, Máia, Maiâ, Maĭa

  • Romanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Italy, Spain

    Also written Maïa, Mâia

60 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)

Maia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Portugal; Inquisição de Lisboa and Évora

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In English, mother of Hermes

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Nutrice

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Estonian, a female given name, a traditional vernacular form of Maria / Maarja

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

  • In Catalan, Mayan (of or relating to the Maya people of Central America)

    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)

1960198020002020Rodrigo Maia, b. 1970Demian Maia, b. 1977Ana Paula Maia, b. 1977Jennifer Maia, b. 1988Arthur Maia, b. 1992María Fernanda Castro Maya, b. 1992Bruna Marquezine, b. 1995Beatriz Haddad Maia, b. 1996Thiago Maia, b. 1997Pablo Maia, b. 2002

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 99 sources across 47 countries.

Official registers attesting Maia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202014K#1,936
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—4.5K#946
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.6K#570
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#19,236
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.2K#450
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20261.2K#450
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,554
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024750#190
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025715—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000662#32,703
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—529#1,060
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—405—

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Where does the name Maia come from?
places so called. The most important is first recorded in the form Amaia, and is probably of pre-Roman origin. Others may get their names from Port, maia flowering broom (from maio month of May) . Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
What does the name Maia mean?
Recorded meaning: places so called. The most important is first recorded in the form Amaia, and is probably of pre-Roman origin.
What are other forms of the name Maia?
In the etymology graph, May, Molle and Manca are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Maia have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 189 thousand people named Maja, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Maia?
In Spain, the national register counted 4,527 people named Maia, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
How common is Maia compared with other names?
In Poland, Maia 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, “Maia” — the 190th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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