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MaayanIn Hebrew: מעיין · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel
With vowel points: מַעְיָן
Maayan (Hebrew: מעיין) is a unisex name of Hebrew origin. 26,088 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 228 girls and ranked #89. Its peak year was 2009, with 928 babies.
- People in Israel
- 26,088
- born 1949–2024
- Babies in 2024
- 228
- rank #89
- Peak year
- 2009
- 928 babies
- USA
- —
- not in the SSA list
Writing and saying Maayan
In Hebrew letters the name is מעיין, read right to left. Maayan is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms.
We have no sourced English explanation of this name yet, so we do not guess one. The Hebrew page has our Hebrew notes when there are any.
Maayan by year in Israel
How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).
per 10,000 babies of the same sex
Related Israeli names
Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.
Questions about Maayan
How do you write Maayan in Hebrew?
Maayan is written מעיין in Hebrew (with vowel points: מַעְיָן). Hebrew is read right to left.
How many people in Israel are named Maayan?
26,088 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name מעיין: 21,395 women and 4,693 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.
Is Maayan a boy's or a girl's name?
Both. In Israel 82% of the people named מעיין are women and 18% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).
Sources
Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.