Maja
101
Babies in 2024
-69%
10-year change
2011
Peak · 449
-13%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Maja
Maja has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 101 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 69% on a decade earlier.
Maja reached its peak in 2011, when 449 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #128 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 22% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 5,375 girls have been officially registered with the name Maja in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,518 girls were registered with the name, starting from 326 in 2014 and ending at 101 in 2024.