Maia is the eldest of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, also identified with the Roman earth goddess Maia (Roman goddess). Maia may also refer to:

Places

New Zealand

  • Maia, New Zealand, a suburb of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand

Portugal

  • Maia, Portugal, municipality
  • Cidade da Maia, a city in the municipality above
  • Maia (Ribeira Grande), a parish in Ribeira Grande Municipality in the Azores, Portugal

Romania

  • Maia, Ialomița, a commune in Ialomiţa County
  • Maia, a village in Bobâlna Commune, Cluj County
  • Maia, a village in Bereni Commune, Mureș County

United Kingdom

  • Maia, a Roman fort located in Bowness-on-Solway, England

United States

  • Fitiuta, American Samoa, also known as Maia

People

  • Maia (given name), a feminine given name
  • Maia (surname), a Portuguese surname
  • Maia (singer), stage name of Colombian singer Mónica Andrea Vives Orozco
  • Maia (nurse), wet-nurse of ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun
  • mxmtoon (a.k.a. Maia), a singer-songwriter and social media personality

Literature, fiction and entertainment

  • Maia (novel), a fantasy novel by Richard Adams
  • Os Maias or "The Maias", a realist novel by Eça de Queirós, named after the protagonist family
  • Maia (Middle-earth), one of a race of beings in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings
  • Maia Skouris (née Rutledge), a character on the USA Network science fiction TV show The 4400
  • Maia Jeffries, a character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
  • Maïa, a 1910 opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo
  • Maia Sterling, a character from the Robotech anime series
  • Maia, the name given to Thumbelina by her newlywed husband, the King of the Spirit of the Flowers, in Hans Christian Andersen's original fairy tale "Thumbelina"
  • Maia, Queen of Hallasar and reincarnation of the goddess Laharah in the video game Summoner 2
  • Maia Mizuki, the protagonist of the anime Daphne in the Brilliant Blue
  • Maia or Marina Le Cille (JP ver.), is a character in the game Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom for Genesis/Mega Drive
  • Maia, a werewolf character in The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
  • Maia, a fictional asteroid in The Last Policeman and its sequels by Ben H. Winters
  • Maia (video game) a science fiction video game
  • "Maia" (Suspect), a 2022 television episode

Other uses

  • Maia and Marco, one of an artificial intelligence sportscaster pair
  • Maia language, a Madang language of Papua New Guinea
  • Maia people, an indigenous tribe of Western Australia
  • Maia (star), the fourth-brightest star in the Pleiades open-star cluster
  • F.C. Maia, a Portuguese football club
  • Short S.21 Maia, a piggyback long-range flying boat combination
  • "-maia" or "maia-", an affix derived from the mythological Maia, used to describe maternal roles in taxonomy
  • Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols, a future NASA earth-orbiting instrument operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Maia (rocket), a reusable launch vehicle by MaiaSpace, subsidiary of ArianeGroup

See also

  • Maïa (disambiguation)
  • MAIA (disambiguation)
  • Majo, or Maja, terms for people from the lower classes of Spanish society
  • Maja (disambiguation)
  • Mya (disambiguation)
  • Maya (disambiguation)
  • Maiasaura, a dinosaur named after the mythological goddess