Maiah
Girl · MY-a · Greek
Maiah is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “mother, nurse”. In 2025 it ranked 4,264th for girls in the US (33 babies).
What does Maiah mean?
Greek: spelling of Maia
“mother, nurse”
In Greek myth Maia was the eldest of the Pleiades and mother of Hermes; May is named after the Roman goddess Maia.
- Say it
- MY-a
Meaning borrowed from Maia. More on Wiktionary.
Is Maiah a girl's or a boy's name?
Maiah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 33 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maiah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 5 girls.
Maiah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 1 | #7,592 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 1 | #7,520 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 1 | #7,017 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
How popular is Maiah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,264among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 33about 1 in 49,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 5% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 33 girls in the US were named Maiah, making it the 4,264th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,451st. Its busiest year was 1998, with 63 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.
Half of all the girls named Maiah in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 5,471 girls in the US were given Maiah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #43, up from #4,264 for this spelling alone.
Maiah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,264 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,145 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,743 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,224 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,163 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,451 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,545 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,457 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,478 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,588 |
| 2015 | 43 | #3,595 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,846 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,753 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,396 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,998 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,180 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,618 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,011 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,130 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,232 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,253 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,627 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,727 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,065 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,138 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,266 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,566 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,241 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,122 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,578 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,953 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,798 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,726 |
Names like Maiah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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