Female first name (English):; (?) Maya nurse, midwife, Latin (Roman mythology); maia = the nurse, the midwife (Greek) = mai-large; of May (German); 'Maia' is in Greek mythology, the most beautiful of the Pleiades and the mother of Mercury, the name 'Maia' may mean nurse, midwife, 'Maja', and later with the Greek 'Maia' is set, in Roman mythology, a fertility goddess, the goddess of growth in the spring; name of the month 'May' is the name of the Roman goddess Maja derived