Mayleigh
Mayleigh was given to 75 girls in 2025, #2,400 among girls’ names; 892 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mayleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mayleigh?
#2,400 among girls’ names, 2025
Mayleigh rose from #3,329 in 2015 to #2,400 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 27.4 to 46.7 per million.
75 babies in 2025, the peak
Mayleigh peaked in 2025, when 75 girls were given it, #2,400 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 48 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,400 | 46.7 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,317 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,313 | 30.5 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,847 | 36.6 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,242 | 30.5 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,259 | 29.7 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,316 | 28.6 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,830 | 35.3 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,234 | 29.0 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,365 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,329 | 27.4 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,303 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,550 | 25.1 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,562 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,529 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,819 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,991 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,978 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,846 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,151 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,599 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,390 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,702 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,976 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mayleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mayleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mayleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mayleigh, and how old are they?
An estimated 886 Americans named Mayleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 483 people named Mayleigh (479 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 570 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,021 babies since 1880, Mayleigh is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 75 of their 134 babies (56%), 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 Mayleigh
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 Mayleigh and names like it
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