Maïa
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: INSEE, 2024
/ma.ja/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Maïa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa).
- ARArgentina1 in 230K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 910K
- PLPoland1 in 13M
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 Maïa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
1,018 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Maia in US United States, FR France, CH Switzerland and 1 more.
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)Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maïa 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 | — | 1,018 | 1 in 327K | 14K | Maia | 55 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 403 | 1 in 21K | 403 | Maia | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 332 | 1 in 151K | 4.5K | Maïa | 9 |
| AR Argentina | — | 198 | 1 in 230K | 750 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 914K | 4.5K | Maia | 225 |
| LU Luxembourg | #461 | — | — | — | Maia | 5 |
1,018 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hedy Lamarrb. 1914ATnot in their usual nameAustrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
- Hedy Epsteinb. 1924DEnot in their usual nameAmerican activist (1924–2016)
- Maya Turovskayab. 1924RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian film critic and theater critic, screenwriter, culturologist, film historian (1924-2019)
- Maja Michailowna Plissezkajab. 1925RUnot in their usual nameRussian ballet dancer (1925-2015)
- Maja Komorowskab. 1937PLnot in their usual namePolish actress
- Maja Gojkovićb. 1963RSnot in their usual nameSerbian politician
- Maya Usovab. 1964RUnot in their usual nameRussian ice dancer
- Hedy Burressb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Maya Sarb. 1981BAnot in their usual nameBosnian singer
- Maja Ognjenovićb. 1984RSnot in their usual nameSerbian female volleyball player
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)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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3.7K | #198 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Maïa mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Maïa?
- In French /ma.ja/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Maïa a male or female name?
- Maïa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024).
- In which country does Maïa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Maïa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maia.
- Where is Maïa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maïa is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maïa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,018 people named Maïa in 2010, about 1 in 327 thousand residents.
- How common is Maïa compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Maïa is the 461st most common surname of 1,851 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maïa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ma%C3%AFaThe 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, “Maïa” — the 461st most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.