Maiyah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 20 babies a year in the US.
Maiyah by the numbers
Maiyah was given to 20 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 38 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Maiyah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Maiyah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Mariyahof the sea or star of the sea; a form of maria246 in the US (2017)
- Maiyaillusion; a form of Maya25 in England and Wales (2025)
- Makiyahwho is like god; a respelling of Micaiah117 in the US (2017)
- Maryahstar of the sea; a form of Maria or Mariah57 in the US (2017)
- Maliyah786 in the US (2017)
- Mayah143 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Maiyah
Names that are said the same way as Maiyah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Maiyah
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