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How popular is “Maya” in the USA?

Number of people named “Maya” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Maya” 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 “Maya” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Maya” by birth year

This chart shows how “Maya” 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
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 100%
1949 10 0.00000287 10 100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 100%
1951 8 0.000002172 8 100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 100%
1953 15 0.000003892 15 100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 100%
1957 12 0.000002856 12 100%
1958 13 0.000003145 13 100%
1959 20 0.00000481 20 100%
1960 28 0.000006741 28 100%
1961 19 0.000004587 19 100%
1962 35 0.000008673 35 100%
1963 23 0.000005811 23 100%
1964 37 0.000009517 37 100%
1965 29 0.000007999 29 100%
1966 50 0.000014386 50 100%
1967 45 0.000013255 45 100%
1968 67 0.000019832 67 100%
1969 96 0.000027623 96 100%
1970 142 0.000039373 142 100%
1971 135 0.000039332 135 100%
1972 147 0.000046771 147 100%
1973 123 0.000040771 123 100%
1974 169 0.000055592 169 100%
1975 192 0.000063589 187 5 95%
1976 212 0.000069868 212 100%
1977 343 0.000107981 343 100%
1978 296 0.000093262 296 100%
1979 385 0.00011572 385 100%
1980 397 0.000115256 397 100%
1981 323 0.000093369 323 100%
1982 347 0.000098918 347 100%
1983 290 0.000083734 290 100%
1984 241 0.000069079 241 100%
1985 251 0.000070326 251 100%
1986 233 0.000065503 233 100%
1987 287 0.000079598 287 100%
1988 289 0.000078213 289 100%
1989 355 0.000092341 344 11 94%
1990 652 0.00016496 652 100%
1991 575 0.000147615 575 100%
1992 696 0.00018119 696 100%
1993 1021 0.000270802 1016 5 99%
1994 1130 0.000303955 1130 100%
1995 1241 0.000338871 1241 100%
1996 1452 0.000398114 1445 7 99%
1997 1676 0.000462249 1676 100%
1998 2695 0.000732694 2686 9 99%
1999 2862 0.000774798 2854 8 99%
2000 3025 0.000800285 3019 6 100%
2001 3015 0.00080542 3010 5 100%
2002 3550 0.000949632 3545 5 100%
2003 3862 0.001015696 3849 13 99%
2004 3771 0.000986934 3766 5 100%
2005 4439 0.001154533 4430 9 100%
2006 5053 0.001277239 5047 6 100%
2007 4706 0.001177182 4701 5 100%
2008 4278 0.001088365 4269 9 100%
2009 4405 0.001153089 4393 12 99%
2010 3980 0.001076916 3971 9 100%
2011 4031 0.001102031 4023 8 100%
2012 3987 0.001090129 3979 8 100%
2013 3833 0.001051385 3826 7 100%
2014 3957 0.00106762 3957 100%
2015 4131 0.001116211 4131 100%
2016 4094 0.001115927 4089 5 100%
2017 4046 0.00113137 4046 100%
2018 3918 0.001114367 3918 100%
2019 3820 0.001100569 3820 100%
2020 3750 0.001122561 3744 6 100%
2021 4080 0.001204268 4080 100%
2022 4244 0.001254458 4244 100%
2023 4085 0.001233693 4085 100%
2024 4220 0.001267838 4220 100%

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