Maylyn
Maylyn was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,172 among girls’ names; 368 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maylyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maylyn?
#8,172 among girls’ names, 2025
Maylyn rose from #12,605 in 2015 to #8,172 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 8.1 per million.
23 babies in 2008, the peak
Maylyn peaked in 2008, when 23 girls were given it, #6,067 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,172 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,133 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,330 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,854 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,517 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,017 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,161 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,595 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,542 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,464 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,605 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,528 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,885 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,353 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,672 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,569 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,468 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,067 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,957 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,104 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,373 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,130 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,167 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,250 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,031 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,433 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,029 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,521 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,842 | 3.3 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,279 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maylyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maylyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maylyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maylyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 364 Americans named Maylyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 390 people named Maylyn (386 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Maylyn?
Maylyn is a less common spelling of Maylin: SSA has recorded 368 Maylyn and 3,133 Maylin since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,666 babies since 1880, Maylyn is the eighth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 640 babies (2.0%), again the eighth 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 Maylyn
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 Maylyn and names like it
- Compare Maylyn and MaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaylyn peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maylyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Maylyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maylyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.