Her birth name is an homage to the deceased younger sister of Pablo, Conchita. As a child, Maria pronounced her first name Maya and it became hers.
Her father Pablo Picasso's 1938 portrait of her - "Fillette au Bateau / "Girl in a Boat" - sold at auction for £18.1 million at Sotheby's auction house (March 2023). Maya, who was two and a half years old at the time, died at age 87 in December 2022.