Maja is the Scandinavian, German, and Slavic short form of Maria — also associated with the Roman goddess Maia of spring. Pronounced "MY-ah" or "MAH-yah" depending on language.
Maja is among the most popular girls' names in Sweden, Croatia, and Poland.
Maja does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Maja reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.