Maylene
Maylene was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,655 among girls’ names; 1,198 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Maylene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maylene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maylene mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maylene is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maylene?
#5,655 among girls’ names, 2025
Maylene fell from #4,818 in 2015 to #5,655 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 13.7 per million.
41 babies in 2012, the peak
Maylene peaked in 2012, when 41 girls were given it, #3,834 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,655 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,243 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,513 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,893 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,313 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,132 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,313 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,932 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,549 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,939 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,818 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,158 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,170 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,834 | 23.3 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,643 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,057 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,246 | 19.6 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,729 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,764 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,752 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,446 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,129 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,722 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,021 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,112 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,027 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,094 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,265 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,784 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,186 | 4.6 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,174 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,209 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,104 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,237 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,280 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,271 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,522 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,796 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,179 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,302 | 6.4 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,061 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,192 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,861 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,860 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,268 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,422 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,200 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,023 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,613 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,133 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,101 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,640 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,148 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,023 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,524 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,735 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,134 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,511 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,149 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,329 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,325 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,145 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,210 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,237 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,037 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,854 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,880 | 3.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,677 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,593 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,115 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,484 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,621 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,875 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,016 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,379 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,976 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,630 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,839 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,894 | 8.7 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,104 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,674 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,640 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,044 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,243 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,402 | 7.5 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,923 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,348 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,776 | 4.9 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,235 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,831 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,633 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,494 | 4.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,333 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maylene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maylene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maylene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maylene, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,198 Americans ever recorded as Maylene. The median Maylene alive today is 20 years old; half are between 11 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,063 people named Maylene (1,063 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 963 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 33 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 95 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 94 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 138 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 364 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 323 |
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 Maylene born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,174 | 0.4× |
Where Maylene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maylene is most over-represented in California: since 1918 it was given 1.4 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 Maylene 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 8,125 babies since 1880, Maylene is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 277 babies (7.9%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Maylene
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 Maylene and names like it
- Compare Maylene and MalenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaylene peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maylene since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Maylene.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maylene alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.