Maelyn
Maelyn was given to 180 girls in 2025, #1,249 among girls’ names; 2,490 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,470 Americans named Maelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maelyn?
#1,249 among girls’ names, 2025
Maelyn rose from #1,945 in 2015 to #1,249 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.11 per 1,000.
201 babies in 2024, the peak
Maelyn peaked in 2024, when 201 girls were given it, #1,189 among girls’ names. The 180 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 180 | #1,249 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 201 | #1,189 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 182 | #1,267 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 170 | #1,370 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,596 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,407 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 187 | #1,249 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 100 | #1,974 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,898 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 94 | #2,089 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 104 | #1,945 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,065 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 99 | #1,986 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 93 | #2,072 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,314 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,489 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,331 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,563 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,429 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,225 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,652 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,343 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,993 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,838 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,931 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,675 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,709 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,965 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,360 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,981 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,469 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,138 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,279 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,692 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,299 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,936 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maelyn, and how old are they?
2,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,490 Americans ever recorded as Maelyn. The median Maelyn alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,463 people named Maelyn (1,458 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,498 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 61 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 615 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,800 |
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).
Where are babies named Maelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Maelyn are Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,870 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 12 | #777 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #904 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,027 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,506 | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 9 | #561 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 8 | #775 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 8 | #921 | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #590 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,004 | 0.8× |
Where Maelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maelyn is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1982 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maelyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,728 babies since 1880, Maelyn is the third most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 180 of their 650 babies (28%), 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 Maelyn
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 Maelyn and names like it
- Compare Maelyn and MaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaelyn peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Maelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.