Girls' name · since 1993
Mayim
Mayim has 48 recorded births since 1993 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2016 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 48
- total births
- 1993–2019
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 83%
- born in that decade
48 girls have been named Mayim since 1993, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Mayim has 48 recorded births among girls since 1993, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1993 to 2019.
- 48 total births
- 1993–2019 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 83% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mayim's 48 recorded births place it above 51% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mayim's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Mayim's full recorded timeline at 2016, 54% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 46% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2017, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2016 peak of 10 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Mayim popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1993–2019
- Peak year (2016)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Mayim by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Mayim's strongest decade.
40 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 83% of all-time use.
Mayim births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 8
1990s
8 births
- 2010s
2010s
40 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 40 births (83% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1993–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mayim: Baby Name Since 1993 - 48 Births, Peak 2016." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mayim. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mayim draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.