Maya: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced MY-uh · 2 syllables

Maya means “illusion (Sanskrit); also Greek Maia, ’mother’”, from Indian and Greek.

* From Maria, ultimately from Hebrew, * From Maia, from Latin, from Ancient Greek (Maia)

How popular is Maya?

Maya was the #62 name in the US in 2025, given to 3,712 babies. Its use has been fairly steady over the last decade. It peaked around 2020.

Babies named Maya in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2020).

Half of US adults named Maya are older than 24; most are between 18 and 46. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Maya have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Maya means “illusion (Sanskrit); also Greek Maia, ’mother’”. It comes from Indian and Greek.

Maya is pronounced MY-uh.

Maya was the #62 name in the US in 2025, given to 3,712 babies. Its use has been fairly steady over the last decade. It peaked around 2020.

Half of US adults named Maya are older than 24. Most are between 18 and 46.