Maylon
Maylon was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,679 among boys’ names; 338 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maylon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maylon?
#8,679 among boys’ names, 2025
Maylon entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,679 in 2025.
13 babies in 1921, the peak
Maylon peaked in 1921, when 13 boys were given it, #2,459 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,679 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,860 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,762 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,652 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,657 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,508 | 3.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,694 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,794 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,703 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,547 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | #10,995 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,084 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,653 | 3.2 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,436 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,490 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,161 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,525 | 2.9 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,901 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,171 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,315 | 3.5 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,943 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,204 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,610 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,839 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,620 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,334 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,868 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,222 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,393 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,401 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,080 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,887 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,866 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,875 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,666 | 9.1 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,109 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,587 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,553 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,349 | 4.6 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,035 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,310 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,174 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,650 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,728 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,459 | 11.8 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,122 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,291 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,591 | 6.9 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,689 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maylon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 338 Americans recorded as Maylon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maylon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maylon, and how old are they?
An estimated 148 Americans named Maylon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (44% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 6 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 297 people named Maylon (59 women and girls, 238 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 137 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times 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.
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 6,428 babies since 1880, Maylon is the third most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 53 babies (17%), the second 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 Maylon
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 Maylon and names like it
- Compare Maylon and MahlonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMaylon peaked in 1921.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Maylon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maylon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.