Maïda
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maïda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Kannada ಮೈದಾ (maidā), from Classical Persian میده (mayda).
- ARArgentina1 in 41K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 160K
- INIndia1 in 234K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
5,665 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maida in IN India, US United States, BE Belgium.
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)
- Kannadaಮೈದಾmaidā(measured from records)
- Classical Persianمیدهmayda(measured from records)
From Kannada ಮೈದಾ (maidā), from Classical Persian میده (mayda).
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maïda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 5,665 | 1 in 234K | 5.7K | Maida | 2 |
| US United States | 2,084 | 1 in 160K | 2.5K | Maida | 48 |
| AR Argentina | 1,115 | 1 in 41K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 101 | 1 in 495K | 165 | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 34 | 1 in 345K | 34 | Maida | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 33 | 1 in 255K | 33 | — | 2 |
5,665 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maïda mean, and where does it come from?
- From Kannada ಮೈದಾ (maidā), from Classical Persian میده (mayda). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 3 other sources.
- Is Maïda a male or female name?
- Maïda 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 Maïda have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 5.7 thousand people named Maïda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maida.
- Where is Maïda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maïda is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 41 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maïda?
- In India, the national register counted 5,665 people named Maïda, about 1 in 234 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ma%C3%AFdaThe 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, “Maïda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.