Maylynn
Maylynn was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,180 among girls’ names; 653 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maylynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maylynn?
#5,180 among girls’ names, 2025
Maylynn fell from #4,936 in 2015 to #5,180 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 15.6 per million.
36 babies in 2024, the peak
Maylynn peaked in 2024, when 36 girls were given it, #4,092 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,180 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,092 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,420 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,430 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,793 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,961 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,334 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,272 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,716 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,918 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,936 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,408 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,430 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,066 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,485 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,111 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,041 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,526 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,020 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,056 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,892 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,690 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,866 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,635 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,703 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,945 | 6.1 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,030 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,628 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,323 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,843 | 3.3 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,785 | 3.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,093 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,789 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,887 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,628 | 4.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,006 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,378 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,432 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maylynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maylynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maylynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maylynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 646 Americans named Maylynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 509 people named Maylynn (507 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 476 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 Maylynn?
Maylynn is a less common spelling of Maylin: SSA has recorded 653 Maylynn and 3,133 Maylin since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,249 babies since 1880, Maylynn is the seventh most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 649 babies (3.9%), the sixth 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 Maylynn
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 Maylynn and names like it
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