Girls' name · since 2016

Maiella

54 babies named Maiella in U.S. Social Security records since 2016, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#34,133 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#14,540 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
54
born since 2016
2020s
peak decade

54 babies have been named Maiella since 2016, making it today's #14540 girls' name.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Maiella has been recorded 54 times among girls since 2016, currently ranked #14540 nationally and more common than 16% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2016 to 2025.

  • #34,133 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #14,540 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 54 born since 2016
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Maiella ranks #34,133 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,540 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 54 born since 2016, peaking in the 2020s.

#34,133 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#14,540 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
54
born since 2016
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%15.9%
Maiella vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Maiella's 54 recorded births place it above 52.66% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Maiella compares

54 17th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Maiella's all-time total is 86% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Maiella Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 54 376 567,345
Peak-year births 9 21 19,840

Maiella's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Maiella splits its recorded history at 2022: 59% of all births land in the more recent half, 41% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2016 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2022 peak of 9 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.

Maiella popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2022)
9
Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
45678910 20162019202020212022202320242025 6

Maiella by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (44 births, 81% of the file).

2020s was Maiella's strongest decade.

44 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 81% of all-time use.

Maiella births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 44 births (81% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Maiella?
54 babies have been named Maiella since 2016. All-time, it sits at #34,133 of 72,339 girls' names by recorded births. In 2025, it ranks #14,540 of 17,297 among girls. The peak year was 2022 with 9 births.
Where does Maiella sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Maiella ranks #34,133 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,540 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Maiella most popular?
Maiella was most popular in the 2020s decade with 44 total births. The single peak year was 2022.
How long has the name Maiella been used?
The SSA has tracked Maiella since 2016 -- 10 years through the most recent 2025 data.
What names are similar to Maiella?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Maia, Maisie, Maira, Mai, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Maiella: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2016–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Maiella draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.