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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Maia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Maia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Maia” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Maia” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Maia” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Maia” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Maia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Maia” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1950 6 0.000001713 6 100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 100%
1959 15 0.000003608 15 100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 100%
1961 12 0.000002897 12 100%
1962 29 0.000007186 29 100%
1963 22 0.000005558 22 100%
1964 16 0.000004116 16 100%
1965 18 0.000004965 18 100%
1966 33 0.000009495 33 100%
1967 20 0.000005891 20 100%
1968 22 0.000006512 22 100%
1969 33 0.000009496 33 100%
1970 52 0.000014418 52 100%
1971 54 0.000015733 54 100%
1972 48 0.000015272 48 100%
1973 65 0.000021545 65 100%
1974 54 0.000017763 54 100%
1975 73 0.000024177 73 100%
1976 52 0.000017137 52 100%
1977 84 0.000026444 84 100%
1978 76 0.000023946 76 100%
1979 110 0.000033063 110 100%
1980 116 0.000033677 116 100%
1981 59 0.000017055 59 100%
1982 61 0.000017389 61 100%
1983 53 0.000015303 53 100%
1984 51 0.000014618 51 100%
1985 84 0.000023535 84 100%
1986 70 0.000019679 70 100%
1987 75 0.000020801 75 100%
1988 76 0.000020568 76 100%
1989 83 0.00002159 83 100%
1990 77 0.000019481 77 100%
1991 95 0.000024389 95 100%
1992 117 0.000030459 117 100%
1993 129 0.000034215 129 100%
1994 134 0.000036044 134 100%
1995 178 0.000048605 178 100%
1996 245 0.000067175 245 100%
1997 327 0.000090188 327 100%
1998 466 0.000126692 466 100%
1999 420 0.000113702 420 100%
2000 475 0.000125665 475 100%
2001 417 0.000111396 417 100%
2002 512 0.000136961 512 100%
2003 494 0.000129921 494 100%
2004 511 0.000133737 511 100%
2005 558 0.000145129 558 100%
2006 598 0.000151156 598 100%
2007 492 0.000123071 492 100%
2008 487 0.000123898 487 100%
2009 511 0.000133764 511 100%
2010 475 0.000128526 475 100%
2011 413 0.00011291 413 100%
2012 386 0.00010554 386 100%
2013 440 0.000120691 440 100%
2014 456 0.000123031 456 100%
2015 562 0.000151854 562 100%
2016 545 0.000148554 545 100%
2017 639 0.000178682 639 100%
2018 620 0.000176342 620 100%
2019 587 0.000169119 587 100%
2020 615 0.0001841 615 100%
2021 724 0.000213699 724 100%
2022 752 0.000222279 752 100%
2023 672 0.000202948 672 100%
2024 681 0.000204597 681 100%

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