Maya Forename
372nd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 1,792,170 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Nepal
Maya Forename Definition:
A Hindustani name, meaning: Illusion. (Sanskrit) Art and wisdom of supernatural power. (Arabic) Root: origin source.
Maya Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | 100% | 1,377,923 | 1:882 | 62 |
| Indonesia | 99% | 109,944 | 1:2,346 | 235 |
| Nepal | 97% | 83,474 | 1:341 | 52 |
| Egypt | 98% | 35,699 | 1:2,574 | 359 |
| United States | 100% | 21,773 | 1:16,651 | 1,464 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 19,062 | 1:8,365 | 1,085 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 14,967 | 1:467 | 102 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 10,735 | 1:524 | 95 |
| Syria | - | 9,486 | 1:2,035 | 349 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 8,080 | 1:1,017 | 222 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 6,648 | 1:1,451 | 342 |
| Russia | 99% | 4,871 | 1:29,611 | 711 |
| Brazil | 100% | 3,864 | 1:55,444 | 3,804 |
| Turkmenistan | 99% | 3,520 | 1:1,555 | 326 |
| Madagascar | - | 3,325 | 1:7,107 | 1,310 |
| England | 100% | 3,262 | 1:17,046 | 1,139 |
| Tajikistan | 99% | 3,221 | 1:2,600 | 461 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 3,148 | 1:6,607 | 1,068 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 3,128 | 1:5,403 | 811 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 3,066 | 1:10,041 | 1,290 |
| Canada | 100% | 2,977 | 1:11,130 | 1,259 |
| Morocco | 100% | 2,812 | 1:12,215 | 914 |
| Philippines | 97% | 2,765 | 1:38,340 | 3,090 |
| Spain | 100% | 2,545 | 1:18,283 | 1,112 |
| France | 100% | 2,441 | 1:27,231 | 1,094 |
| Mali | 91% | 2,209 | 1:7,686 | 693 |
| Algeria | 100% | 2,107 | 1:18,119 | 1,129 |
| Pakistan | 96% | 2,036 | 1:95,461 | 4,316 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,968 | 1:49,125 | 1,437 |
| Japan | 100% | 1,968 | 1:65,034 | 3,401 |
| Poland | 99% | 1,932 | 1:19,683 | 705 |
| Oman | 100% | 1,751 | 1:2,346 | 339 |
| Australia | - | 1,697 | 1:8,048 | 838 |
| Niger | 88% | 1,691 | 1:11,345 | 1,029 |
| Malaysia | 90% | 1,624 | 1:18,750 | 1,917 |
| Thailand | 91% | 1,618 | 1:43,304 | 4,862 |
| DR Congo | 51% | 1,616 | 1:45,685 | 3,061 |
| Sudan | - | 1,586 | 1:23,838 | 2,295 |
| Mauritania | 100% | 1,369 | 1:2,991 | 333 |
| Turkey | 100% | 1,361 | 1:57,165 | 2,421 |
| Ivory Coast | 89% | 1,262 | 1:18,285 | 1,717 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 1,219 | 1:14,559 | 1,072 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 1,156 | 1:84,395 | 6,393 |
| South Africa | 95% | 1,028 | 1:53,047 | 5,375 |
| Sweden | 100% | 855 | 1:11,530 | 973 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 816 | 1:37,760 | 4,574 |
| Mauritius | - | 781 | 1:1,662 | 293 |
| Denmark | - | 738 | 1:7,655 | 727 |
| Ghana | 50% | 730 | 1:36,967 | 2,200 |
| Mexico | 99% | 704 | 1:176,342 | 3,366 |
| Belgium | 100% | 701 | 1:16,391 | 1,395 |
| Malawi | 75% | 635 | 1:26,949 | 2,214 |
| Suriname | 100% | 625 | 1:884 | 159 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 624 | 1:9,573 | 1,411 |
| Papua New Guinea | 75% | 569 | 1:14,327 | 1,432 |
| Nigeria | 84% | 556 | 1:319,360 | 11,671 |
| Armenia | 100% | 521 | 1:5,602 | 638 |
| Italy | 100% | 448 | 1:136,299 | 2,249 |
| Belarus | 97% | 401 | 1:23,647 | 380 |
| Bahrain | - | 385 | 1:3,503 | 566 |
| Czechia | 99% | 367 | 1:29,036 | 673 |
| Greece | 100% | 355 | 1:30,802 | 1,315 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 340 | 1:21,035 | 2,152 |
| Senegal | 93% | 332 | 1:43,920 | 1,861 |
| New Zealand | - | 328 | 1:13,829 | 1,271 |
| Chad | 100% | 309 | 1:44,008 | 4,322 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 286 | 1:56,323 | 1,774 |
| China | - | 238 | 1:5,739,730 | 55,937 |
| Tanzania | 67% | 210 | 1:251,373 | 9,495 |
| Norway | 100% | 202 | 1:25,408 | 1,393 |
| Iraq | 100% | 193 | 1:181,440 | 3,305 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 173 | 1:60,296 | 3,762 |
| Fiji | - | 173 | 1:5,158 | 1,243 |
| Peru | 100% | 168 | 1:189,235 | 5,096 |
| Somalia | - | 160 | 1:84,537 | 3,429 |
| Cameroon | 52% | 159 | 1:135,915 | 6,466 |
| Jordan | 100% | 152 | 1:58,071 | 1,643 |
| Kenya | - | 149 | 1:310,786 | 10,644 |
| Ireland | 100% | 148 | 1:31,375 | 1,268 |
| Romania | 100% | 148 | 1:135,486 | 5,433 |
| Bhutan | 100% | 147 | 1:5,612 | 419 |
| Zimbabwe | 50% | 146 | 1:105,643 | 7,570 |
| Kuwait | - | 142 | 1:26,657 | 2,664 |
| Portugal | - | 138 | 1:75,441 | 2,229 |
| Israel | 98% | 136 | 1:61,786 | 3,433 |
| Afghanistan | 86% | 134 | 1:243,459 | 5,741 |
| Singapore | 100% | 116 | 1:54,199 | 6,755 |
| Taiwan | 66% | 114 | 1:208,506 | 18,221 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 112 | 1:12,156 | 1,719 |
| Moldova | - | 103 | 1:34,574 | 781 |
| Burkina Faso | 91% | 97 | 1:189,479 | 8,618 |
| Scotland | 100% | 93 | 1:57,531 | 1,719 |
| Georgia | 92% | 90 | 1:41,539 | 2,206 |
| Hungary | 100% | 84 | 1:116,569 | 777 |
| Austria | 100% | 78 | 1:109,156 | 2,203 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 74 | 1:408,134 | 11,668 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 70 | 1:35,125 | 1,725 |
| Colombia | 100% | 68 | 1:702,631 | 9,373 |
| Malta | - | 68 | 1:6,314 | 764 |
| Mongolia | 100% | 67 | 1:43,803 | 3,867 |
| Tunisia | - | 62 | 1:10,918 | 1,059 |
| Finland | 100% | 60 | 1:91,386 | 2,282 |
| Estonia | 100% | 51 | 1:25,792 | 1,959 |
| Guinea | 100% | 51 | 1:232,522 | 2,628 |
| Angola | - | 49 | 1:550,339 | 1,990 |
| Qatar | 100% | 49 | 1:48,359 | 6,334 |
| Wales | 100% | 49 | 1:63,149 | 1,962 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 48 | 1:5,628 | 744 |
| Hong Kong | - | 44 | 1:176,198 | 3,174 |
| Argentina | 100% | 43 | 1:994,727 | 5,195 |
| Benin | 100% | 37 | 1:285,834 | 11,817 |
| Latvia | - | 37 | 1:54,477 | 1,447 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 36 | 1:24,197 | 1,408 |
| Namibia | - | 35 | 1:68,691 | 3,761 |
| Palestine | 100% | 35 | 1:130,002 | 2,060 |
| Panama | 100% | 33 | 1:118,381 | 5,491 |
| Serbia | - | 29 | 1:246,404 | 3,840 |
| South Korea | - | 29 | 1:191,187 | 7,453 |
| Uganda | 67% | 29 | 1:1,412,308 | 21,370 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 28 | 1:1,624,997 | 4,464 |
| Botswana | - | 26 | 1:84,017 | 7,219 |
| Burundi | 50% | 25 | 1:396,262 | 737 |
| Croatia | 100% | 25 | 1:168,683 | 3,219 |
| Honduras | 100% | 24 | 1:367,394 | 6,443 |
| Chile | 100% | 23 | 1:765,531 | 7,771 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 23 | 1:149,028 | 3,201 |
| Barbados | - | 22 | 1:13,172 | 1,234 |
| Ecuador | - | 22 | 1:805,769 | 6,913 |
| Iran | - | 22 | 1:3,568,039 | 16,388 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 21 | 1:504,829 | 2,894 |
| Guyana | 100% | 21 | 1:36,346 | 3,756 |
| Maldives | 100% | 20 | 1:21,695 | 942 |
| El Salvador | - | 18 | 1:352,321 | 3,774 |
| Lithuania | - | 18 | 1:163,993 | 1,800 |
| Liberia | 50% | 17 | 1:259,533 | 8,550 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 17 | 1:27,979 | 568 |
| French Polynesia | - | 16 | 1:17,369 | 1,803 |
| Gambia | - | 16 | 1:120,412 | 458 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 15 | 1:317,863 | 5,868 |
| American Samoa | - | 14 | 1:3,989 | 735 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 14 | 1:379,290 | 1,926 |
| Belize | 100% | 13 | 1:27,255 | 2,702 |
| Zambia | - | 12 | 1:1,321,233 | 17,217 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 11 | 1:547,121 | 9,117 |
| Vietnam | - | 11 | 1:8,420,283 | 3,954 |
| Jamaica | - | 10 | 1:288,323 | 8,750 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 10 | 1:3,786 | 437 |
| Monaco | 100% | 10 | 1:3,847 | 675 |
| Gabon | - | 9 | 1:209,260 | 2,118 |
| Mozambique | - | 9 | 1:3,027,040 | 2,336 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 9 | 1:6,074 | 908 |
| Congo | 100% | 8 | 1:626,151 | 12,913 |
| Cuba | - | 8 | 1:1,438,319 | 4,450 |
| Haiti | - | 8 | 1:1,340,869 | 18,166 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 7 | 1:34,775 | 1,415 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 7 | 1:503,494 | 4,832 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 7 | 1:2,324,761 | 25,689 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 6 | 1:307,191 | 2,078 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 6 | 1:5,208 | 987 |
| Saint Lucia | 80% | 6 | 1:29,636 | 2,683 |
| Curaçao | - | 5 | 1:31,161 | 859 |
| Bahamas | - | 4 | 1:99,842 | 1,712 |
| Macau | - | 4 | 1:152,052 | 991 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 4 | 1:887,575 | 4,962 |
| Rwanda | - | 4 | 1:2,842,858 | 2,668 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| Albania | 100% | 3 | 1:1,015,523 | 26,928 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 3 | 1:2,412,268 | 9,978 |
| Brunei | - | 2 | 1:209,785 | 2,478 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 2 | 1:30,650 | 1,815 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 2 | 1:54,874 | 3,819 |
| Yemen | - | 2 | 1:13,148,376 | 10,677 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Bermuda | - | 1 | 1:64,826 | 2,481 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Eritrea | 100% | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Grenada | - | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Guam | - | 1 | 1:160,646 | 3,210 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Jersey | - | 1 | 1:99,980 | 2,122 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Luxembourg | - | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
The alternate forms: Mâya (6), Mayã (3), Mayà (2) & Mayá (1) are calculated separately.
Maya (273,718) may also be a surname.
Maya Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A Hindustani name, meaning: Illusion. (Sanskrit) Art and wisdom of supernatural power. (Arabic) Root: origin source.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Maya Forename Popularity
Maya Demographics
Maya Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 2,886 (2014)
United States
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Maya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Maya in the Russian language | ||
| Мая | maa | - |
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