Girls' name · since 2006
Maylah
Maylah has 154 recorded births since 2006 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #22,509 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #4,535 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 154
- born since 2006
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Maylah is the #4535 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 154 recorded since 2006.
Maylah has 154 recorded births among girls since 2006, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #4535 as of the latest data, more common than 74% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2006 to 2025.
- #22,509 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #4,535 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 154 born since 2006
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Maylah ranks #22,509 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #4,535 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 154 born since 2006, peaking in the 2020s.
- #22,509 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #4,535 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 154
- born since 2006
- 2020s
- peak decade
Maylah's 154 recorded births place it above 68.84% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Maylah compares
154 32nd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Maylah's all-time total is 59% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Maylah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 154 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 31 | 21 | 19,840 |
Maylah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Maylah splits its recorded history at 2019: 73% of all births land in the more recent half, 27% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2011 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 31 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Maylah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2006–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 31
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Maylah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (97 births, 63% of the file).
2020s was Maylah's strongest decade.
97 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Maylah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 6
2000s
6 births
- 2010s
2010s
51 births
- 2020s
2020s
97 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 97 births (63% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Maylah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 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, 2006–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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 Maylah 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 August 2026.