Maelee
Maelee was given to 79 girls in 2025, #2,316 among girls’ names; 1,587 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,580 Americans named Maelee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maelee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maelee?
#2,316 among girls’ names, 2025
Maelee fell from #2,120 in 2015 to #2,316 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 51.0 to 49.2 per million.
93 babies in 2024, the peak
Maelee peaked in 2024, when 93 girls were given it, #2,079 among girls’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,316 | 49.2 |
| 2024 | 93 | #2,079 | 57.4 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,482 | 44.9 |
| 2022 | 90 | #2,136 | 54.9 |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,301 | 48.8 |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,082 | 32.2 |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,319 | 46.5 |
| 2018 | 90 | #2,127 | 52.9 |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,562 | 40.0 |
| 2016 | 88 | #2,200 | 49.7 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 91 | #2,120 | 51.0 |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,340 | 44.2 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,648 | 38.2 |
| 2012 | 90 | #2,126 | 51.1 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,654 | 38.1 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,100 | 30.4 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,985 | 31.6 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,359 | 26.4 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,028 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,323 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,651 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,885 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,036 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,285 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,838 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,600 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,995 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,784 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,401 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,810 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,711 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,791 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,586 | 2.7 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,774 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maelee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maelee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maelee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maelee, and how old are they?
1,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,587 Americans ever recorded as Maelee. The median Maelee alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,080 people named Maelee (1,076 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 22 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 527 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,264 babies since 1880, Maelee is the fifth most given (8.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 547 babies (14%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maelee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maelee and names like it
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- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Maelee.
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