Mayda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A nonexistent island, historically included on maps at various locations in the North Atlantic, and usually depicted as crescent-shaped
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries
/maʝda/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mayda is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 55K
- USUnited States1 in 170K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A nonexistent island, historically included on maps at various locations in the North Atlantic, and usually depicted as crescent-shaped.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mayda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Mayda | 54 |
| US United States | — | 1,962 | 1 in 170K | 2K | Mayda | 198 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Mayda | 40 |
| BO Bolivia | #315 | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Mayda | 19 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 1 | Mayda | 40 |
| CR Costa Rica | #740 | 150 | 1 in 34K | 150 | Mayda | 10 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Mayda | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 111 | 1 in 31K | 111 | — | 16 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mayda Doris Hendersonb. 1928ZASouth African botanist and botanical collector (1928-2015)
- Mayda Pradob. 1953CUCuban soprano and teacher
- Mayda Crestob. 1972ARArgentinian politician
- Mayda Navarrob. 1975MXMexican figure skater
- Mayda GürselTRTurkish biologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)48 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mayda mean, and where does it come from?
- A nonexistent island, historically included on maps at various locations in the North Atlantic, and usually depicted as crescent-shaped. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mayda?
- A machine transcription gives /maʝda/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Mayda a male or female name?
- Mayda is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (IBGE, 2022), Uruguay (INE Uruguay) and Spain (INE).
- In which country does Mayda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Mayda in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mayda.
- How common is the name Mayda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,962 people named Mayda in 2020, about 1 in 170 thousand residents.
- How common is Mayda compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Mayda is the 315th most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maydaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mayda” — the 315th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.