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Maya

Maya ranks #43 out of 693 girl cat names in our data (the #1 girl cat name is Luna). Across all 3 places, 40 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #39 among girl dog names.
Maya's popularity trend

Maya's share of cats, year by year — or toggle to its yearly rank. Peak year by share: 2019.

0.05%0.1%0.15%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
40
across 3 places
Popularity rank
#43
of 693 girl cat names
5-year rank move
+11
2014 → 2019
Gender split
100% female
100% female0% male

Gender split comes from 50 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Maya mean?
/ˈmaɪə/2 syllablesOrigin: Hebrew, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit

Maya is a genuinely multicultural name: it appears independently across Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin naming traditions, and there isn't a single agreed-upon root it traces back to. Rather than one fixed origin, it's better understood as a name several cultures arrived at separately, each carrying its own associations.

Short, soft, and easy to call out, Maya has a gentle, worldly feel. It suits a pet with a calm, curious presence, a name that sounds at home anywhere.

Etymology & pronunciation from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Where Maya shows up

Cats named Maya per place, against that place's total.

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA0.14%
SeattleWA, US0.08%
DarwinNT, AU0.26%

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