Maye
Maye was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,610 among girls’ names; 1,956 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maye?
#10,610 among girls’ names, 2025
Maye rose from #10,623 in 2015 to #10,610 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born held at 5.6 per million.
58 babies in 1921, the peak
Maye peaked in 1921, when 58 girls were given it, #982 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,610 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,348 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,905 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,431 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,844 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,512 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,066 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,341 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,297 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,857 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,623 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,972 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,274 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,255 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,253 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,046 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,342 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,703 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,903 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,119 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,662 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,989 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,871 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,559 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,320 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,709 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,945 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,592 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,325 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,791 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,855 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,835 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,209 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,081 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,121 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,467 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,341 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,520 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,180 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,301 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,379 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,797 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,177 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,502 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,017 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 17 | #2,008 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,846 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,172 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,153 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,454 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,657 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,699 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,491 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,592 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 30 | #1,508 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 42 | #1,200 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 58 | #982 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 54 | #1,010 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 50 | #1,023 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 41 | #1,176 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 55 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 48 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1914 | 43 | #898 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 42 | #817 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 37 | #827 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 40 | #694 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 32 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 29 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1908 | 34 | #666 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 30 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1906 | 22 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 30 | #649 | 0.10 |
| 1904 | 38 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1903 | 40 | #511 | 0.15 |
| 1902 | 25 | #683 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 20 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 36 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 18 | #781 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 30 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1897 | 26 | #611 | 0.11 |
| 1896 | 22 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1895 | 30 | #545 | 0.13 |
| 1894 | 27 | #566 | 0.12 |
| 1893 | 22 | #623 | 0.10 |
| 1892 | 23 | #587 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 22 | #568 | 0.12 |
| 1890 | 18 | #634 | 0.09 |
| 1889 | 18 | #613 | 0.10 |
| 1888 | 20 | #564 | 0.11 |
| 1887 | 16 | #580 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 19 | #520 | 0.13 |
| 1885 | 16 | #550 | 0.12 |
| 1884 | 13 | #607 | 0.10 |
| 1883 | 11 | #604 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 5 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 10 | #568 | 0.11 |
| 1880 | 9 | #617 | 0.10 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maye has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 98 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maye, and how old are they?
An estimated 311 Americans named Maye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 10 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 559 people named Maye (552 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 339 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 404,256 babies since 1880, Maye is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 5,287 babies (<1%), 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 Maye
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 Maye and names like it
- Compare Maye and MayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMaye peaked in 1921.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maye since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Maye.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maye alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.