Girl
Maya
Maya is a girl's name, a solidly familiar choice, that is currently on the rise, with its biggest decade yet in the 2000s.
SanskritSanskrit
GreekMeaning "illusion"; also read as a Greek spring goddess or Hebrew "water"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
25
1950s
111
1960s
432
1970s
2,144
1980s
3,006
1990s
13,990
2000s
40,088
2010s
31,969
Peaked in the 2000s · 91,765 total U.S. births since 1900