Maat
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAH-aht
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Maat is a girls' name, meaning “truth, order, justice”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Maat mean?
Ancient Egyptian goddess Ma'at
“truth, order, justice”
Ma'at was the Ancient Egyptian goddess of truth, balance and cosmic order, symbolised by an ostrich feather.
Is Maat a girl's or a boy's name?
Maat is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maat in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 43% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Maat, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Maat in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Maat in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
Names like Maat
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zaya, Salem, Zaniyah, Zainab, Zayla, Aaliyah, Zaliyah, Hadassah, Sama, Sariyah, Rehmat
Names related to Maat
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Maat: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maat, updated 20 October 2026.