Our names have the potential to influence our behavior, physical appearance, career path and life choices, popularity, and how others perceive us. If a child has a story behind his name, it can motivate him to be like his namesake and to emulate that person’s good qualities.
Go through the list of popular personalities named Maya:
Maya (High Priest of Amun), a High Priest of Amun until at least year four of Akhenaten
Maya (Treasurer) (13th century BC), the treasurer to Pharaohs Tutankhamun, Ay, and Horemheb of Egypt
Maya Ackerman, Russian-American computer scientist
Maya Angelou (1928–2014), African-American author and poet
Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam (born 1975), better known as M.I.A., British singer/rapper
Maya Bar-Hillel (born 1943), Israeli psychologist
Maya Kalle-Bentzur (born 1958), Israeli Olympic runner and long jumper
Maya Berović (born 1987), Bosnian pop star
Maya Bouskilla (born 1977), Israeli singer
Maya Days, American singer
Maya Deren (1917–1961), American avant-garde filmmaker
Maya Diab (born 1980), Lebanese singer
Maya Dolas (1966-1991), Indian gangster
Maya Erskine (born 1987), American actress
Maya Gabeira (born 1987), Brazilian surfer
Maya Hawke (born 1998), American actress
Maya Higa (born 1998), a conservationist and Twitch streamer who streams under the name
Maya Kazan (born 1986), American actress and director
Maya Kulenovic (born 1975), Canadian artist
Maya Lin (born 1959), American architect and sculptor, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Maya Millete (born 1981), American woman who went missing in 2021
Maya Mishalska (born 1974), Mexican actress
Maya Moore (born 1989), American basketball player
Maya Nasri (born 1976), Lebanese singer
Maya Okamoto (born 1967), Japanese voice actress
Maya Plisetskaya (1925–2015), Soviet born ballet dancer
Maya Ritter (born 1993), Canadian actress
Maya Rudolph (born 1972), American actress and Saturday Night Live cast member
Maya Sondhi (born 1983), British Indian actress
Maya Simantov (born 1982), Israeli singer
Maya Soetoro-Ng (born 1970), Indonesian-American half-sister of U.S. President Barack Obama
Maya Stojan (born 1984), Swiss actress
Maya Tahan (born 1999), Israeli tennis player
Maya Tskitishvili (born 1974), Georgian economist and politician
Maya Vik (born 1980), Norwegian singer
Maya Wiley (born 1964), American civil rights activist and lawyer, 2021 mayoral candidate for New York City
Maya Yoshida (born 1988), Japanese professional footballer
Maya (singer) (born 1979), South Korean K-Pop singer
Maya (musician) (born 1979), vocalist of Japanese visual kei band LM.C
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