Mairin
Mairin was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,240 among girls’ names; 753 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mairin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mairin?
#9,240 among girls’ names, 2025
Mairin rose from #9,289 in 2015 to #9,240 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 6.8 per million.
43 babies in 2007, the peak
Mairin peaked in 2007, when 43 girls were given it, #3,761 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,240 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,747 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,566 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,135 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,082 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,100 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,575 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,980 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,705 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,812 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,289 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,193 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,942 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,768 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,121 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,897 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,324 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,835 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,761 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,648 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,905 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,238 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,160 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,288 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,629 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,018 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,880 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,576 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,606 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,903 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,223 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,521 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,204 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,059 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,479 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,135 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,801 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,483 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,583 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,136 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,310 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,154 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,497 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,530 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,133 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,139 | 5.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,173 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,156 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mairin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mairin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mairin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mairin, and how old are they?
An estimated 743 Americans named Mairin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 699 people named Mairin (697 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 662 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 430,192 babies since 1880, Mairin is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,241 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Mairin
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 Mairin and names like it
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- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Mairin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mairin alive today were born 1997-2012.
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