Mayela
Mayela was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,559 among girls’ names; 927 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mayela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mayela?
#11,559 among girls’ names, 2025
Mayela fell from #9,922 in 2015 to #11,559 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 5.0 per million.
36 babies in 2005, the peak
Mayela peaked in 2005, when 36 girls were given it, #4,001 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,559 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,728 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,906 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,515 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,883 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,820 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,436 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,300 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,725 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,484 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,922 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,343 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,010 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,063 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,025 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,556 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,833 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,687 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,579 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,328 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 36 | #4,001 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,685 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,187 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,461 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,737 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,429 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,815 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,063 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,541 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,208 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,833 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,152 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,059 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,624 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,151 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,985 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,976 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,946 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,604 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,878 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,777 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,889 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,046 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,118 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,153 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,656 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,297 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,820 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,076 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,445 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,040 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,612 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,502 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,875 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,120 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,825 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,133 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mayela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mayela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mayela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mayela, and how old are they?
An estimated 908 Americans named Mayela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 17 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,411 people named Mayela (2,404 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 827 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 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).
Where are babies named Mayela born?
The states with the most babies named Mayela are Texas, California and Arizona, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 213 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| California | 186 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Mayela is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mayela is most over-represented in Texas: since 1965 it was given 2.5 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 Mayela 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 12,263 babies since 1880, Mayela is the seventh most given (7.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 321 babies (2.5%), again the seventh most given.
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 Mayela
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 Mayela and names like it
- Compare Mayela and MahalaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMayela peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mayela since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Mayela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mayela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.