Maja
Maja is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 37 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 370.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 200984 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1953
- 2,009people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,009 girls have been named Maja in the United States since 1953, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 84 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2000s alone account for 32%.
By decade
In 2009, its biggest year
Maja was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2009 were Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Maja
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Anneliesepeak 2005
- Malanapeak 2007
- Malinapeak 2009
- Anikapeak 2006
- Marinpeak 2007
- Samiapeak 2006
- Ammypeak 2005
- Raniapeak 2006
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.