Maelynn
Maelynn was given to 234 girls in 2025, #1,055 among girls’ names; 2,916 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,890 Americans named Maelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maelynn?
#1,055 among girls’ names, 2025
Maelynn rose from #1,858 in 2015 to #1,055 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.15 per 1,000.
261 babies in 2024, the peak
Maelynn peaked in 2024, when 261 girls were given it, #994 among girls’ names. The 234 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 234 | #1,055 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 261 | #994 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 222 | #1,111 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 235 | #1,071 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 197 | #1,210 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 218 | #1,115 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 195 | #1,201 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 150 | #1,469 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,734 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 133 | #1,642 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 111 | #1,858 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,863 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,166 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,277 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 57 | #3,003 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,925 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,077 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,625 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,694 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,321 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,162 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,480 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,525 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,911 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,294 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,676 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,571 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,341 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,402 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,139 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,221 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,139 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,779 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,193 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,447 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,288 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,741 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,436 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,405 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,666 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,575 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,597 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,697 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,257 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maelynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maelynn, and how old are they?
2,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,916 Americans ever recorded as Maelynn. The median Maelynn alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,439 people named Maelynn (1,438 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,591 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 34 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 63 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 536 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,260 |
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 Maelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Maelynn are Texas, Pennsylvania and Indiana, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17 | #1,442 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #635 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 15 | #464 | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #715 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,156 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 11 | #717 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,041 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,099 | 1.4× |
| California | 8 | #2,408 | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 8 | #546 | 1.3× |
Where Maelynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maelynn is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1966 it was given 1.8 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 Maelynn 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 8,102 babies since 1880, Maelynn is the most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 234 of their 499 babies (47%), again the 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 Maelynn
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 Maelynn and names like it
- Compare Maelynn and MaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaelynn peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maelynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Maelynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maelynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.