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Maya vs Mayrin

American parents have registered 123,750 Mayas since 1880, against 1,124 Mayrins. Maya is still ahead, with 3,712 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Maya Mayrin

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

Maya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1940 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Maya had 4,279 and Mayrin had 147.

Side by side

  Maya Mayrin
Total US births 123,7501,124
Most in one year 5,053147
Babies in 2025 3,7128
Estimated living today 122,0001,100
Median age today 1515
Peak year 20062008
Best rank 57th girls1,562nd girls
Rank in 2025 62nd10,917th
First recorded 19401999
Girls / boys 123,587 / 1631,124 / 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.

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 Mayrin.