The Color of the Name Maya
Vivid Blue
#0F606F
RGB 15 · 96 · 111
HSL 189° · 76% · 25%
OKLCH 0.45 · 0.158 · 214.1°
Every spelling has a color
mmamaymaya
Each prefix of maya resolves to its own color — hover a chip to see it. Accents and punctuation fold away: Zoë, zoey and Zoe' share their base letters.
Closest real-world color
Petrol #005F6A
nearest of 7,457 named colors (ΔE ≈ 3.1)
Why this color?
The hue comes from an FNV-1a hash of the name's letters, which lands uniformly anywhere on the color wheel — 214.1° in this case. Saturation is weighted by the vowel-to-letter ratio (2/4), so vowel-heavy names trend richer, and lightness is drawn from the tail of the hash.
Same name, same color — forever. No rerolls.
Only 7% of 126 analyzed names land in this part of the wheel.
Maya color questions
- What color is the name Maya?
- Maya resolves to Vivid Blue (#0f606f) — computed deterministically from the letters of the name, never random.
- How is a name's color determined?
- An FNV-1a hash of the normalized name picks a hue uniformly around the wheel; the vowel-to-letter ratio weights chroma; lightness comes from the hash tail. The result is converted through OKLCH and matched to a 7,457-color database for its nearest real name.
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