Maya

Maya is a feminine name with multiple meanings. In Hindu philosophy, Māyā means "illusion" and in Hindu mythology, it is also an alternate name of the Hindu goddess Durga. According to tradition, Queen Māyā of Sakya was also the name of the mother of Siddartha Gautama, the Buddha. In Hebrew, the name Maya (מַיָּה/מאיה in Hebrew) is a short form of "ma'ayan," meaning "spring" or "brook." In Old Persian the name means "generous."
Maya can also be a name used as a tribute to the Maya peoples of southern Mexico and northern Central America or to the Maya, a group of Indigenous Australians. Additionally, Maya can be a name of Japanese origin, with different meanings. Variants include Mayako and Mayaka. Mount Maya is a Japanese mountain named for the mother of Buddha. In the Nepali language, "Maya" means "love."
The name is also used as a variant form of the Greek-origin name Maia (Μαια in Ancient Greek), the eldest of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes in Greek and Roman mythology. The unrelated name Maia, meaning "palm tree" in the Māori language, is popular for Māori girls in New Zealand.
Sometimes spelled Maja, it can also be used as a short form of Maria or Mary in Germany, Scandinavian countries, Poland, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, and Macedonia. Maya is also used as a short form for the name Amalia or the Basque name Amaia or Amaya (meaning "the end") in Spanish-speaking countries.
The similar-sounding Japanese name Mayu means "truth, reason," while some sources say Amaya (pronounced A-MAH-YAH) is a Japanese name meaning "night rain"
Another origin for the name Maya is the Tupi language spoken by Brazilian native Indians, meaning "Mother", and Mayara, meaning "Grandmother".
Maya has been a popular name for girls in recent years. It is currently among the top hundred names used for baby girls in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium, Norway, and Israel as well as in other countries. Alternate spellings proliferate, with the name sometimes spelled Maia, Maja, Maiya, Miya, Mya, or Myah. The similar name Mia is also sometimes used as a spelling variant of Maya.

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1822, from the native name. Related: Mayan (1831).

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Means: illusion in Sanskrit. Form of Maia. Derived from Hebrew mayim: water. Illusion, fantasy or God's power, also a variant of Maia.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Maya Rudolph	1972	American comedic actress
2	Maya Angelou	1928	American author and poet
3	Maya Soetoro-Ng	1970	Teacher and sister of Barack Obama
4	Maya Moore	1989	American basketball player
5	Madeline Dirado	1993	American swimmer
6	Maya Dolas	1966	Indian mobster
7	Maya Lin	1959	American architect and artist
8	Maya Harris		American attorney
9	Maya Yoshida	1988	Japanese footballer
10	Maya Kazan	1986	American actor, television actor and stage actor
11	Maya Septha	1986
12	Edward Maya	1986	Romanian singer
13	Veronica Maya	1977	Italian television presenter
14	Maya Deren	1917	American filmmaker
15	Maya Erskine		American actress
16	Maya Plisetskaya	1925	Russian ballet dancer
17	Maya Stojan	1986	Swiss actress
18	Luna Maya	1983
19	Maya Kodnani		Indian politician
20	Maya Jupiter	1978	Mexican-Australian singer-songwriter
21	Maya Avant		Fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful
22	Maya Forbes	1968	American screenwriter and director
23	Maya Eshet	1990
24	Maya Karin	1979	Malaysian actor and singer
25	Maya Lauterbach	2002	German actress
26	Maya Berović	1987	Bosnian pop star
27	Maya Jane Coles	2000	British musician
28	Maya Herrera		Fictional character on the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes
29	Maya diab	1980	Lebanese actor
30	Maya Sondhi
31	Maya Widmaier-Picasso	1935	Daughter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter
32	Maya Banks		Author
33	Maya Wulan
34	Maya Gold	1981	Hungarian pornographic actress
35	Maya Usova	1964	Russian ice dancer
36	Maya Ford	1979	Bass player for The Donnas
37	Maya Gabeira	1987	Brazilian surfer
38	Maya Stange	1973	Australian actress
39	Maya Alagh		Indian actress
40	Maya Mishalska	1974	Mexican actress
41	Maya Booth	1983	Portuguese actor
42	Maya Rumantir	1964	Indonesian actress
43	Maya Wiley
44	Maya Postepski
45	Maya Sansa	1975	Italian actress
46	Maya Sharma
47	Maya Fernández	1971	Chilean politician
48	Rafael Maya	1897	Colombian poet, lawyer and literary critic (1897-1980)
49	Maya Hills‎	1987	Pornographic actress
50	Maya Bothe	2000	German actress
51	Maya Ritter	1993	Canadian actress
52	Maya Nasri	1976	Lebanese actor and singer
53	Maya Hanoomanjee	1952	Politician; Member of Parliament; Former Health Minster of Mauritius
54	Maya Beiser	1963	American musician
55	Maya Barsony	1976	French singer-songwriter
56	Miki Maya	1964	Japanese actress
57	Maya Penn	2000	American entrepreneur, philanthropist, animator, artist, and CEO of her eco-friendly fashion company
58	Maya Hayuk	1969	Artist
59	Roberto Maya	1935	Brazilian actor
60	Maya MacGuineas	1968	American political writer
61	Maya Lavelle	1992
62	Maya Jaggi
63	Maya Tiwari	1952	Holistic author and peace leader
64	Maya Rung	1987	Swedish actress
65	Maya Jasanoff	1974	American academic
66	Maya Azucena		Musician
67	Maya Sar	1981	Bosnian singer-songwriter
68	Maya Burhanpurkar	1999	Indo-canadian scientist
69	Maya Nassar	1986
70	Shreya Maya	1987	Maya KDI
71	Yunesky Maya	1981	Cuban baseball player
72	Maya Rao	1928	Indian classical dancer and choreographer
73	Maya Surduts	1937	French feminist and activist (1937-2016)
74	Maya Fey
75	Maya Simantov	1982	Singer
76	Maya Nasser	1979	Syrian journalist
77	Maya Bouskilla	1977	Israeli singer
78	Augusto Angel Maya	1932
79	Maya Kulenovic	1975	Canadian artist
80	Maya Okamoto	1967	Japanese voice actress
81	Maya Kobayashi	1979	Japanese announcer
82	Maya Bond	2000	American musician
83	Maya Sakura	1998	Japanese singer
84	Maya Hasan	1972
85	Maya Hayes	1992	Association footballer
86	Maya Eksteen	1958	Dutch television presenter
87	Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff	1954	American writer
88	Alexander López		Colombian politician and lawyer
89	Maya Burman	1971	Indian artist
90	Maya Lahan
91	Maya Hansen	2000
92	Maya Simon	1945	Swiss actress
93	Maya Ajmera		American children's writer, Nonprofit executive
94	Maya Ayu Permata Sari	1988	Indonesian actress
95	Maya Dunietz	1981	Israeli musician
96	Maya Ilsøe	1975
97	Maya Saban	1978	Singer
98	Maya Nakanishi	1985	Paralympic sprinter
99	Maya Kopitseva	1924	Russian artist
100	Alfredo Ramos Maya	1977	Colombian politician and lawyer
101	Maya Kristalinskaya	1932	Soviet singer
102	Maya Even	1958	Canadian journalist
103	Maya Riani Larasati	1990
104	Maya Vik	1980	Musician
105	Maya Bouma	1933	Dutch actress
106	Maya Shoef	1988	Actress
107	Maria Maya	1981	Actress
108	Wolf Maya	1953	Brazilian actor
109	Maya Ali	1969	British politician
110	Maya Lawrence	1980	Fencer
111	Maya Albana	1973	Danish singer
112	Maya Maron	1980	Israeli actress
113	Maya Henselek	1982	German actor, stage actor and film actor
114	Maya Bulgakovа	1932	Russian actress
115	Maya Caroline	1979
116	Joseph Yegba Maya	1944	Camaeroonian footballer
117	Henriqueta Maya	1945
118	Maya Petrova	1982	Russian handball player
119	Maya Albert	1975	Belgian actress
120	Maya Wildevuur	1944	Dutch painter
121	Maya Jules Haddad	1983
122	José Aguilar y Maya	1897	Mexican politician and lawyer (1897-1966)
123	Maya Hakvoort	1966	Dutch actress
124	José Heredia Maya	1947	Spanish writer and poet (1947-2010)
125	Eva Maya	1979
126	Maya Moreel	1972	Belgian actress
127	Belén Maya	1966
128	Maya		High Priest of Amun until at least year 4 of Akhenaten
129	Maya Evans	1979	Peace activist
130	Maya Romanoff	1941	American interior designer
131	Carlos Eduardo Enríquez Maya	1948	Colombian politician and lawyer
132	Maya Jribi	1960	Politician
133	Maya Manolova	1965	Bulgarian attorney and politician
134	Maya Casabianca		French singer
135	Maya Simionescu	1937
136	Maya Christina Gonzalez	1964	American artist
137	Maya Haddad	1988	German actress
138	Maya Zapata	1981	Mexican actress
139	Maya Shankar
140	Maya Zankoul	1986	Lebanese artist
141	Maya Goded	1967	Mexican photographer and filmmaker
142	Julio Maya	1985	Cuban footballer
143	Maya Antic	1986	German actress
144	Maya Gallus
145	Maya Gilliss-Chapman
146	Maya Badian	1945	Romanian-born Canadian Composer
147	Maya Zack	1976
148	Yésica Sánchez Maya	1977	Mexican lawyer
149	Noé Maya	1985	Mexican footballer
150	Maya Paczuski	1963	Physicist
151	Maya Detiège	1967	Belgian politician
152	Maya Ray
153	Maya Eizin Öijer	1946	Swedish artist
154	Maya Belenkaya	1931	Figure skater
155	Maya Pedersen-Bieri	1972	Swiss skeleton racer
156	Mario Maya	1937	Spanish dancer
157	Maya Nadig	1946	Swiss university teacher
158	Maya Lindholm	1990	German wheelchair basketball player
159	Maya Jackson Randall	1979	American journalist
160	Maya Arusi	1982	Olympic taekwondo practitioner
161	Maya Singh Saini
162	Maya Boog	1967	Swiss singer and opera singer
163	Maya Cohen Levy	1955	Israeli artist
164	Maya Homburger	1953	Swiss violinist
165	Maya Harrisson	1992	Olympic alpine skier
166	Maya Kamath	1951	Cartoonist
167	Tânia Maya
168	Juan Santiago Maya	1936	Spanish guitarist
169	Carlos Maya	1972	Venezuelan racing cyclist
170	Maya Bejerano	1949	Israeli poet
171	Maya Jansen	1994	Tennis player, volleyball player
172	Maya Kidowaki	1969	Japanese tennis player
173	Maya Barqui	1985	Footballer
174	Maya Leibovich
175	Maya Rogers
176	Maya Singh	2000
177	Ignacio Maya		Mexican military personnel
178	Lucía Maya	1953	Mexican artist
179	Maya Sazonova	1965	Athletics competitor
180	Maya Rosa	1986	Indonesian tennis player
181	List of awards and nominations received by Luna Maya
182	Maya Lauqué-Médina	1979	French journalist
183	Tristan Maya	1926	French poet
184	Maya Koikeda	1969	Japanese manga artist
185	Moshe Maya	1938	Israeli politician
186	Héctor Maya	1945	Argentinian politician
187	Delfim Maya	1886
188	Héctor Domingo Maya	1913	Argentinian lawyer and politician
189	Maya Reiner	1952	German architect
190	Maya Arriz Tamza	1957
191	Maya Georgieva	1955	Volleyball player
192	Maya Sonenberg	1960	American writer
193	Maya Jalloul	1990	Lebanese chess player
194	Cándido Maya	1973	Fencer
195	Maya Haïdar Boustani		Archaeologist
196	Maya Parnas	1974
197	Maya Bamert	1979	Swiss bobsledder
198	Maya Massar		American actress
199	Maya Büchi-Kaiser	1963	Swiss politician
200	Maya Schenwar	1982	Editor and writer