Mayah
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mayah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 144K(measured from records)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 50K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 135K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
2,310 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mayah 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,310 | 1 in 144K | 2.3K | Mayah | 144 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Mayah | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 254 | 1 in 834K | 254 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Mayah | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 497K | — | Mayah | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 28 | 1 in 364K | 28 | — | 5 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Mayah | 7 |
| SG Singapore | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Mayah | 4 |
2,310 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
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 35 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,818 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 254 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 252 | #21,447 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 178 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 61 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 28 | #19,942 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 18 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #6,818 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- How do you pronounce Mayah?
- A machine transcription gives /məiə/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- Is Mayah a male or female name?
- Mayah 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 Mayah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Mayah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mayah.
- How common is the name Mayah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,310 people named Mayah in 2020, about 1 in 144 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mayahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Mayah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.