Maile
Maile was given to 33 girls in 2025, #4,315 among girls’ names; 3,680 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,490 Americans named Maile and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maile by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maile mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maile is “a female given name from Hawaiian.” Its etymology gives the sense “maile, a flowering Hawaiian vine” (maile).
From Hawaiian Maile, from maile (“maile, a flowering Hawaiian vine”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maile?
#4,315 among girls’ names, 2025
Maile rose from #5,234 in 2015 to #4,315 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.6 to 20.5 per million.
154 babies in 2007, the peak
Maile peaked in 2007, when 154 girls were given it, #1,509 among girls’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,315 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,624 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,619 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,742 | 13.4 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,465 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,418 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,398 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,730 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,955 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,729 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,234 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,821 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,389 | 26.8 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,960 | 32.9 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,787 | 35.8 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,962 | 32.6 |
| 2009 | 73 | #2,559 | 39.7 |
| 2008 | 140 | #1,626 | 74.0 |
| 2007 | 154 | #1,509 | 80.1 |
| 2006 | 145 | #1,518 | 76.3 |
| 2005 | 125 | #1,620 | 67.6 |
| 2004 | 131 | #1,530 | 71.3 |
| 2003 | 148 | #1,369 | 81.0 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,926 | 51.2 |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,690 | 59.4 |
| 2000 | 87 | #1,941 | 47.9 |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,294 | 36.6 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,268 | 35.7 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,495 | 29.9 |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,491 | 29.1 |
| 1995 | 64 | #2,109 | 36.4 |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,304 | 31.9 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,856 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,803 | 23.3 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,760 | 22.9 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,546 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,544 | 24.4 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,198 | 29.2 |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,511 | 23.6 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,490 | 23.3 |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,794 | 36.6 |
| 1984 | 48 | #2,101 | 28.5 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,457 | 22.7 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,979 | 31.3 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,899 | 34.2 |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,999 | 31.9 |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,367 | 24.9 |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,814 | 36.6 |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,819 | 36.5 |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,042 | 29.3 |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,634 | 41.2 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,660 | 38.2 |
| 1973 | 48 | #1,797 | 32.9 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,256 | 22.4 |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,228 | 21.6 |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,850 | 27.5 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,189 | 20.2 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,337 | 17.1 |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,994 | 21.2 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,342 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,002 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,322 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,028 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,876 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,916 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,461 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,862 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,384 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,695 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,608 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,014 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,853 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,132 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,240 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,841 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,778 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,025 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,602 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,560 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,974 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,348 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,042 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,428 | 4.4 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,159 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,727 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,665 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,602 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,343 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,617 | 5.0 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,908 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,520 | 5.2 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,273 | 8.2 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,464 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,268 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maile a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maile has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maile: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maile, and how old are they?
3,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,680 Americans ever recorded as Maile. The median Maile alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 3,418 people named Maile (3,334 women and girls, 84 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 23 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 162 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 616 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 762 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 377 |
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 Maile born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #2,033 | 2.1× |
| Hawaii | 5 | #198 | 67.2× |
Where Maile is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maile is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1919 it was given 67.2 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 Maile 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 20,229 babies since 1880, Maile is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 634 babies (5.2%), the seventh 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 Maile
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 Maile and names like it
- Compare Maile and MayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaile peaked in 2007.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maile since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Maile: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Maile.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maile alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.