Maya

girls:

115.6k births since 1940

#328 (94th percentile)

boys:

163 births since 1975

#4423 (3rd percentile)

overall:

115.7k births since 1940

#614 (92nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maya".

1940 2023 19402023

Key Statistics

Total Births
115,577
Peak Births
5,047
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1940
Peak Percentile
95.0%
Current Percentile
95.0%
Peak Rank
#48
Current Rank
#48
Female statistics
Total Births
163
Peak Births
13
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1975
Peak Percentile
1.3%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#660
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Maya

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Maya. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 88.1% confident that Maya is pronounced as MAI-uh. The next most likely pronunciation is MAH-yuh, at 11.9% confidence.

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88.1%
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11.9%
MAH-yuh (2 syllables)
11.9% confidence
M AA1 Y AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Maya. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Maya, please vote using the thumbs up button.

MAI-yuh (2 syllables)
8 names 6.1k births
M AY1 Y AH0
MAI-ee-uh (3 syllables)
4 names 3.2k births
M AY1 IY0 AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M AY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.