Maja
About 2,049 American babies have been named Maja since 1953, most of them around 2009. In 2025 it ranked 3,712th. About 2,000 Majas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Maja
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,049
- Estimated living today
- 2,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2009
- Best rank
- 2,316th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,712th
- First recorded
- 1953
How old the living Majas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,049 babies given the name since 1953, about 2,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 980 of them are children and 9 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Majas
- Maja Keuc (born 1992)Slovenian singer
- Maja Włoszczowska (born 1983)Polish mountain biker
- Maja Dahlqvist (born 1994)Swedish cross-country skier
- Maja Chwalińska (born 2001)Polish female tennis player
- Maja Ognjenović (born 1984)Serbian female volleyball player
- Maja Haderlap (born 1961)Austrian writer
- Maja Savić (born 1976)Montenegrin handball player
- Maja Gojković (born 1963)Serbian politician
People named Maja with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Maja is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Maja is most concentrated in Illinois (10.6×), New Jersey (2.1×), California (2.0×), New York (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2009
The most popular girls’ names the year Maja peaked:
Maja elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland girls | Maja | 171,929 birth registrations | 2nd |
| Sweden girls | Maja | 18,990 | 2nd |
| Denmark girls | Maja | 11,578 | 11th |
| Norway girls | Maja | 6,746 | 16th |
| England and Wales girls | Maja | 5,460 | 128th |
| Ireland girls | Maja | 1,244 | 54th |
| Switzerland girls | Maja | 827 | 166th |
| Italy girls | Maja | 809 | — |
| Belgium girls | Maja | 552 | 277th |
| Scotland girls | Maja | 526 | 102nd |
| France girls | Maja | 310 | 1,820th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Maja | 211 | 106th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Maja: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Maja | 729 | 0.059% | 122nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Maja | 63 | 0.014% | 282nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Maja | 32 | 0.049% | 87th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Maja | 3 | 0.081% | 16th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Maja is most concentrated in Zug, where 0.10% of children were given it – 28 of them.
Maja: rank by region
In 2025, Maja was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Maja | 836 | 5 |
In 2016, Maja was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Maja | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Maja was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland, and first in 2 of them. It has come first somewhere in 5 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Maja | 3 | 291 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Maja | 3 | 200 |
| Lubelskie | Maja | 4 | 179 |
| Lubuskie | Maja | 4 | 87 |
| Łódzkie | Maja | 3 | 235 |
| Małopolskie | Maja | 1 | 465 |
| Mazowieckie | Maja | 6 | 525 |
| Opolskie | Maja | 2 | 88 |
| Podkarpackie | Maja | 2 | 234 |
| Podlaskie | Maja | 3 | 131 |
| Pomorskie | Maja | 3 | 240 |
| Śląskie | Maja | 1 | 416 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Maja | 4 | 109 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Maja | 2 | 140 |
| Wielkopolskie | Maja | 2 | 365 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Maja | 2 | 167 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Maja appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (334th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Maja by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 495 | 30th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Maja among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Maja | 386 | 528 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Maja lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 285 women called Maja were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Maja | 30 | 0.054 | 1,433 |
| Balears, Illes | Maja | 27 | 0.043 | 1,437 |
| Palmas, Las | Maja | 24 | 0.041 | 1,990 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Maja | 32 | 0.031 | 1,830 |
| Málaga | Maja | 20 | 0.022 | 2,049 |
| Barcelona | Maja | 53 | 0.017 | 2,470 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Maja against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.