Maelin
Maelin was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,580 among girls’ names; 306 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maelin?
#10,580 among girls’ names, 2025
Maelin rose from #11,490 in 2015 to #10,580 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 5.6 per million.
21 babies in 2014, the peak
Maelin peaked in 2014, when 21 girls were given it, #6,126 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,580 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,744 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,363 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,894 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,871 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,236 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,898 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,999 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,686 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,469 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,490 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,126 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,252 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,483 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,503 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,210 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,760 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,207 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,286 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,512 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,470 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,636 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,830 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,620 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,567 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,449 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,070 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maelin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maelin, and how old are they?
An estimated 304 Americans named Maelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 324 people named Maelin (312 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 240 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Maelin?
Maelin is a less common spelling of Maelynn: SSA has recorded 306 Maelin and 2,916 Maelynn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,381 babies since 1880, Maelin is the eighth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 634 babies (1.4%), again the eighth most given.
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 Maelin
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 Maelin and names like it
- Compare Maelin and MaelynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaelin peaked in 2014.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Maelin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maelin alive today were born 2013-2025.
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