girls:
7 births since 2007
#5709 (0th percentile)
boys:
25 births since 2009
#4561 (0th percentile)
overall:
32 births since 2007
#7707 (0th percentile)
The name Maitreya is the #7,707 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32 recorded births since 2007. This represents the 0.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,561 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 2009. For girls, it ranks #5,709 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 2007.
Maitreya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2007 (2007 for girls and 2009 for boys). Birth data for Maitreya is available in 5 out of the 17 years between 2007 and 2023 (4 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Maitreya has been given predominantly to boys, with 78.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Maitreya were boys. Interestingly, until around 2012, the name was more popular for girls (58.3% girls from 2007 to 2011), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2012 to 2023).
For boys, Maitreya reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #910) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Maitreya ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 92.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Maitreya reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #985) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maitreya".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Maitreya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.2% confident that Maitreya is pronounced as mai-TRAY-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAI-tray-uh, at 29.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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