Mayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MY-a
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,961 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #2,778 for girls
Mayah is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “illusion (in Sanskrit)”. In 2025 it ranked 1,961st for girls in the UK (15 babies) and 2,778th for girls in the US (61 babies).
What does Mayah mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Maya
“illusion (in Sanskrit)”
Spelling of Maya, a name found in Sanskrit and as a form of Maia.
Is Mayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Mayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the UK and 61 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mayah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,961st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 19,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 2% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the UK were named Mayah, making it the 1,961st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,480th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 35 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Mayah than any year since 2007.
Half of all the girls named Mayah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,115 girls in the UK were given Mayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #7, up from #1,961 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,438th in England and Wales and 632nd in Scotland.
Mayah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #1,961 |
| 2024 | 29 | #1,208 |
| 2023 | 23 | #1,451 |
| 2022 | 22 | #1,485 |
| 2021 | 19 | #1,669 |
| 2020 | 22 | #1,480 |
| 2019 | 21 | #1,531 |
| 2018 | 23 | #1,468 |
| 2017 | 27 | #1,326 |
| 2016 | 18 | #1,781 |
| 2015 | 35 | #1,085 |
| 2014 | 28 | #1,272 |
| 2013 | 16 | #1,874 |
| 2012 | 27 | #1,293 |
| 2011 | 18 | #1,696 |
| 2010 | 25 | #1,344 |
| 2009 | 16 | #1,763 |
| 2008 | 23 | #1,346 |
| 2007 | 10 | #2,354 |
| 2006 | 20 | #1,364 |
| 2005 | 12 | #1,912 |
| 2004 | 1 | #6,173 |
| 2003 | 7 | #2,574 |
| 2002 | 5 | #3,047 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 4 | #3,310 |
How popular is Mayah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,778th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 61 about 1 in 26,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 26% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 61 girls in the US were named Mayah, making it the 2,778th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,100th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 174 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.
2025 had fewer girls named Mayah than any year since 2002.
Half of all the girls named Mayah in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 5,471 girls in the US were given Mayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #43, up from #2,778 for this spelling alone.
Mayah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,778 |
| 2024 | 84 | #2,231 |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,288 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,530 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,384 |
| 2020 | 87 | #2,100 |
| 2019 | 100 | #1,949 |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,727 |
| 2017 | 143 | #1,534 |
| 2016 | 134 | #1,628 |
| 2015 | 174 | #1,362 |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,643 |
| 2013 | 123 | #1,695 |
| 2012 | 128 | #1,663 |
| 2011 | 140 | #1,564 |
| 2010 | 147 | #1,521 |
| 2009 | 139 | #1,612 |
| 2008 | 137 | #1,642 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,940 |
| 2006 | 116 | #1,788 |
| 2005 | 119 | #1,667 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,133 |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,884 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,670 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,659 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,850 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,932 |
| 1998 | 39 | #3,170 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,505 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,564 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,953 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,011 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,615 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,263 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,187 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,675 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,381 |
Names like Mayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah, Safa, Zainab, Aaliyah, Hafsa, Hiba, Sumayyah, Ruqayyah, Summer, Nusaybah, Rahma, Safaa
Other spellings of Mayah
Maya, Maia, Mya, Maja, Myah, Maiya, Myia, Maaya, Maiah, Maiyah, Myiah
Names related to Mayah
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), 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, “Mayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mayah, updated 20 October 2026.