Thirty years of Maya
Maya in numbers
Maya has risen from 145 girls in 1996 to 1,259 in 2025, though it is below its peak of 1,592 in 2024. Its biggest three-year rise came between 2005 and 2008, from 527 to 964. It ranked 259th in 1996, reached 15th in 2024 and ranks 28th now. On average it was given to 239 girls a year in the late 1990s, 633 in the 2000s, 1,215 in the 2010s and 1,379 in the 2020s so far.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year-21%1,592 to 1,259
- 5 years-5%1,331 to 1,259
- 10 years-7%1,354 to 1,259
- 20 years+139%527 to 1,259
- Since 1996×9145 to 1,259
- Total, 1996 to 202527,704girls
† All changes and totals are Baby Data calculations from ONS counts. A total adds only the published years.
Across the three nations, 2025
Each from its own statistics office, never added togetherRank 28 · ONS · 1,592 in 2024
Rank 20 · NRS · 159 in 2024
Rank 84 · NISRA · 37 in 2024
England and Wales (ONS) count births in the calendar year; Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) count births registered in the year. Each comes from its own statistics office and they are never added together.
Year by year, 1996 to 2025 Show all 30 yearsHide the table
| Year | Rank | Babies | Change† | 1 in X† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | 1,259 | -21% | 1 in 226 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,592 | +27% | 1 in 182 |
| 2023 | 29 | 1,255 | -11% | 1 in 230 |
| 2022 | 28 | 1,406 | -2% | 1 in 210 |
| 2021 | 29 | 1,433 | +8% | 1 in 213 |
| 2020 | 32 | 1,331 | -3% | 1 in 225 |
| 2019 | 34 | 1,375 | +9% | 1 in 226 |
| 2018 | 37 | 1,260 | +0% | 1 in 254 |
| 2017 | 40 | 1,257 | -9% | 1 in 263 |
| 2016 | 39 | 1,374 | +1% | 1 in 247 |
| 2015 | 37 | 1,354 | +13% | 1 in 251 |
| 2014 | 45 | 1,200 | +7% | 1 in 282 |
| 2013 * | 51 | 1,120 | +4% | 1 in 305 |
| 2012 | 53 | 1,072 | +0% | 1 in 331 |
| 2011 | 58 | 1,072 | +1% | 1 in 329 |
| 2010 | 57 | 1,061 | +13% | 1 in 332 |
| 2009 | 66 | 942 | -2% | 1 in 365 |
| 2008 | 69 | 964 | +27% | 1 in 359 |
| 2007 | 78 | 759 | +3% | 1 in 442 |
| 2006 | 79 | 735 | +39% | 1 in 445 |
| 2005 | 98 | 527 | -13% | 1 in 598 |
| 2004 | 85 | 609 | +37% | 1 in 511 |
| 2003 | 111 | 443 | -0% | 1 in 684 |
| 2002 | 103 | 444 | -2% | 1 in 653 |
| 2001 | =107 | 452 | -0% | 1 in 642 |
| 2000 | 110 | 454 | +19% | 1 in 649 |
| 1999 | =125 | 383 | +53% | 1 in 790 |
| 1998 | 173 | 250 | +42% | n/a |
| 1997 | 229 | 176 | +21% | 1 in 1,781 |
| 1996 | 259 | 145 | 1 in 2,179 |
* ONS’s girls’ 2013 file repeats the May total as April, so the 2013 births total is about 1,360 too high and 1 in X for 2013 is slightly too high. 1 in X is not shown for girls in 1998: one monthly total is missing from the ONS girls’ 1998 file. Rank follows ONS: names with the same count share a rank (shown with =). “Under 3” means the name was given to fewer than 3 babies that year, so ONS did not publish it.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; National Records of Scotland; NISRA. Exact spellings are counted separately and names given to fewer than 3 babies are not published. Figures marked † are Baby Data calculations. How we calculate
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