Mailyn
Mailyn was given to 31 girls in 2025, #4,512 among girls’ names; 936 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mailyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mailyn?
#4,512 among girls’ names, 2025
Mailyn fell from #4,271 in 2015 to #4,512 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 19.0 to 19.3 per million.
57 babies in 2023, the peak
Mailyn peaked in 2023, when 57 girls were given it, #2,959 among girls’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,512 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,438 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,959 | 35.5 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,113 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,295 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,407 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,986 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,843 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,121 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,798 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,271 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,759 | 23.0 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,245 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,620 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,883 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,725 | 23.6 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,228 | 28.3 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,144 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,181 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,045 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,904 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,237 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,446 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,966 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,013 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,927 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,369 | 9.0 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,495 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,817 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,222 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,142 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,826 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,447 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,838 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,724 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,529 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,809 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,722 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mailyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mailyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mailyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mailyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 927 Americans named Mailyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 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 1,029 people named Mailyn (1,020 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 714 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% 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).
Where are babies named Mailyn born?
The states with the most babies named Mailyn are Texas, California and Florida, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 154 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 121 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Mailyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mailyn is most over-represented in Texas: since 1978 it was given 1.6 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 Mailyn 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, Mailyn is the fifth most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 650 babies (4.8%), the fourth 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 Mailyn
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 Mailyn and names like it
- Compare Mailyn and MaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mailyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Mailyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mailyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
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