Maaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MY-a
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Maaya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “illusion (in Sanskrit)”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Maaya mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Maya; also a form of Greek Maia
“illusion (in Sanskrit)”
In Sanskrit maya means illusion, and Queen Maya was the mother of the Buddha; it is also a form of Maia.
Meaning borrowed from Maya. More on Wiktionary.
Is Maaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Maaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maaya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 50% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Maaya, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2022, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Maaya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,115 girls in the UK were given Maaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #7, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Maaya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 1 | #7,592 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,895 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
Names like Maaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Hafsa, Ayah, Hiba, Khadija, Ayra, Rahma, Raya, Amira, Safaa, Aaliyah
Other spellings of Maaya
Names related to Maaya
More Sanskrit names
Bodhi, Arya, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Aadhya, Avyaan, Ishaan, Siya, Leena
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Maaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maaya, updated 20 October 2026.