Name meaning & stats
Maia
Maia means “brave or confident (debated)”. 18,200 US babies since 1940, peak 2022.
What it means
“brave or confident (debated)”
Debated
In US birth records
Peak year: 2022
18,200 US babies were named Maia between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Maia (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 8 Mayas spell it Maia
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2022)