Maidah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAA-ee-dah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Maidah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “table spread with food”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Maidah mean?
Arabic: Arabic maida
“table spread with food”
Al-Ma'idah, 'The Table Spread', is the fifth chapter of the Quran.
Is Maidah a girl's or a boy's name?
Maidah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maidah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2014, with 12 girls.
Half of all the girls named Maidah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Maidah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 8 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 10 | #2,692 |
| 2015 | 10 | #2,629 |
| 2014 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2013 | 8 | #3,060 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 10 | #2,540 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,895 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 2 | #6,613 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
How popular is Maidah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Maidah, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the girls named Maidah in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Maidah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
Names like Maidah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Safa, Ruqayyah, Abeeha, Aaliyah, Aaminah, Sumayyah, Aafiyah, Umaymah, Zainab, Musfirah, Ayah
Names related to Maidah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Maidah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maidah, updated 20 October 2026.