Mayme
Mayme was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 10,928 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mayme by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mayme mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mayme is “a 19th-century alternative spelling of Mamie, diminutive of the female given name Mary.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mayme?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,779, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
291 babies in 1915, the peak
Mayme peaked in 1915, when 291 girls were given it, #348 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #11,779 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,989 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,031 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,016 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,320 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,104 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,298 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,744 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,686 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,874 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (132)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #16,209 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,214 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,847 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,863 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,345 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,961 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,360 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,030 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,250 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,321 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,844 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,511 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,951 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,425 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,509 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,094 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,341 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,508 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,684 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,933 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,862 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,717 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,512 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,226 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,258 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,220 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,439 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,002 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,078 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,790 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,337 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,758 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,508 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,380 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,401 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,821 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,745 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,651 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,725 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,364 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,329 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,891 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,621 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,508 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,975 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,661 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,475 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,296 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,983 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,480 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,566 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,976 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,901 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,324 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 31 | #1,477 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 41 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,293 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,261 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 36 | #1,234 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 50 | #1,005 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 48 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 51 | #986 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 64 | #850 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 51 | #971 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 53 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 69 | #803 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 65 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 87 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 103 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1929 | 96 | #719 | 0.09 |
| 1928 | 107 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 127 | #636 | 0.11 |
| 1926 | 164 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1925 | 145 | #604 | 0.12 |
| 1924 | 183 | #533 | 0.15 |
| 1923 | 215 | #471 | 0.18 |
| 1922 | 207 | #478 | 0.17 |
| 1921 | 217 | #467 | 0.18 |
| 1920 | 211 | #468 | 0.18 |
| 1919 | 257 | #402 | 0.23 |
| 1918 | 274 | #396 | 0.24 |
| 1917 | 282 | #378 | 0.26 |
| 1916 | 285 | #365 | 0.27 |
| 1915 | 291 | #348 | 0.30 |
| 1914 | 207 | #367 | 0.27 |
| 1913 | 173 | #367 | 0.28 |
| 1912 | 165 | #355 | 0.30 |
| 1911 | 132 | #345 | 0.32 |
| 1910 | 142 | #323 | 0.36 |
| 1909 | 141 | #306 | 0.41 |
| 1908 | 151 | #287 | 0.45 |
| 1907 | 139 | #297 | 0.44 |
| 1906 | 125 | #297 | 0.42 |
| 1905 | 136 | #283 | 0.47 |
| 1904 | 161 | #247 | 0.58 |
| 1903 | 158 | #240 | 0.60 |
| 1902 | 166 | #234 | 0.63 |
| 1901 | 183 | #213 | 0.76 |
| 1900 | 229 | #208 | 0.76 |
| 1899 | 170 | #211 | 0.73 |
| 1898 | 174 | #220 | 0.67 |
| 1897 | 207 | #191 | 0.88 |
| 1896 | 186 | #204 | 0.78 |
| 1895 | 209 | #187 | 0.89 |
| 1894 | 235 | #172 | 1.1 |
| 1893 | 215 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 1892 | 222 | #169 | 1.0 |
| 1891 | 234 | #151 | 1.3 |
| 1890 | 246 | #143 | 1.3 |
| 1889 | 237 | #144 | 1.3 |
| 1888 | 247 | #137 | 1.4 |
| 1887 | 214 | #128 | 1.5 |
| 1886 | 219 | #127 | 1.5 |
| 1885 | 198 | #127 | 1.5 |
| 1884 | 190 | #130 | 1.5 |
| 1883 | 157 | #130 | 1.4 |
| 1882 | 140 | #129 | 1.3 |
| 1881 | 115 | #136 | 1.3 |
| 1880 | 124 | #132 | 1.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mayme a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mayme has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 132 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mayme: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mayme, and how old are they?
An estimated 838 Americans named Mayme and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (8% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 43 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,028 people named Mayme (1,028 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,131 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below 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).
Where are babies named Mayme born?
The states with the most babies named Mayme are Kentucky, Texas and Tennessee, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 675 | not ranked | 4.7× |
| Texas | 377 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 306 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Minnesota | 240 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 202 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Oklahoma | 190 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Missouri | 174 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 147 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 137 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 95 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Mayme is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mayme is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 4.7 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 Mayme 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 385,855 babies since 1880, Mayme is the fifth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,578 babies recorded by SSA was a Mayme (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Mayme
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 Mayme and names like it
- Compare Mayme and MayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMayme peaked in 1915.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mayme since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Mayme.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Mayme alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with MMost given first.