Maylee
Maylee was given to 245 girls in 2025, #1,023 among girls’ names; 4,596 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,560 Americans named Maylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maylee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maylee is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maylee?
#1,023 among girls’ names, 2025
Maylee rose from #1,101 in 2015 to #1,023 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.13 to 0.15 per 1,000.
268 babies in 2016, the peak
Maylee peaked in 2016, when 268 girls were given it, #990 among girls’ names. The 245 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 245 | #1,023 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 249 | #1,019 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 220 | #1,119 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 257 | #1,014 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 237 | #1,065 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 227 | #1,084 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 202 | #1,177 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 212 | #1,149 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 212 | #1,163 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 268 | #990 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 236 | #1,101 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 228 | #1,115 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 236 | #1,054 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 216 | #1,145 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 217 | #1,132 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 169 | #1,376 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 200 | #1,240 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 159 | #1,477 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 86 | #2,271 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,747 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,810 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,876 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,942 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,369 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,674 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,087 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,720 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,507 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,625 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,185 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,306 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,422 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,332 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,507 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,340 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,328 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,470 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,777 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,808 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,660 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,212 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maylee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maylee, and how old are they?
4,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,596 Americans ever recorded as Maylee. The median Maylee alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 3,070 people named Maylee (3,064 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,194 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 82 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,010 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Maylee born?
The states with the most babies named Maylee are Texas, Tennessee and Ohio, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 29 | #998 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 14 | #558 | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 11 | #857 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 11 | #719 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,400 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 10 | #901 | 0.5× |
| Utah | 9 | #471 | 3.9× |
| Indiana | 9 | #704 | 1.6× |
| West Virginia | 9 | #198 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 8 | #708 | 1.7× |
Where Maylee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maylee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1969 it was given 3.9 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 Maylee 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 19,328 babies since 1880, Maylee is the most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 245 of their 647 babies (38%), again the 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 Maylee
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 Maylee and names like it
- Compare Maylee and MallieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaylee peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maylee since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Maylee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maylee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.