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Maia vs Maine

American parents have registered 18,200 Maias since 1880, against 9 Maines. Maia is still ahead, with 715 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maia against Maine, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maia Maine

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Maia for 74 years and Maine for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Maia Maine
Total US births 18,2009
Most in one year 7529
Babies in 2025 715under 5
Estimated living today 18,000
Median age today 15
Peak year 20221898
Best rank 420th girls1,171st girls
Rank in 2025 433rdunranked
First recorded 19501898
Girls / boys 18,200 / 09 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maia and Maine.