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Maya vs Maynor

American parents have registered 123,750 Mayas since 1880, against 1,076 Maynors. Maya is still ahead, with 3,712 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maya against Maynor, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maya Maynor

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 81 years in which either name was published, Maya for 80 years and Maynor for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Maya Maynor
Total US births 123,7501,076
Most in one year 5,05356
Babies in 2025 3,71241
Estimated living today 122,0001,100
Median age today 1515
Peak year 20062022
Best rank 57th girls2,468th boys
Rank in 2025 62nd2,991st
First recorded 19401926
Girls / boys 123,587 / 1630 / 1,076

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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