Maya

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Creative spelling of Maja

Related Names

See Maja

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Mayuson

Female

Mayudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Maya
Genitive:	Mayas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Maya
Genitive:	Mayan
Partitive:	Mayaa

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Maya
Accusative:	Mayu
Dative:	Mayu
Genitive:	Mayu

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Maya
Genitive:	Mayas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Maya
Genitive:	Mayas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Greenland: 1980
• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 7 August 2019

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: 1970-1990
• Norway: 2005-

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		4459	5329	4455	5323	4	6
Denmark		2814	n.a.	2814	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	1033	n.a.	1033	0	0
Greenland		42	53	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		19	28	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		1688	n.a.	1688	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend