Girls' name · since 1915
Mayzell
Mayzell has 40 recorded births since 1915 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1922 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 40
- total births
- 1915–1953
- years on record
- 1920s
- peak decade
- 60%
- born in that decade
40 girls have been named Mayzell since 1915, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Mayzell has 40 recorded births among girls since 1915, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1920s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1915 to 1953.
- 40 total births
- 1915–1953 years on record
- 1920s peak decade
- 60% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mayzell's 40 recorded births place it above 48% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mayzell's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Mayzell splits its recorded history at 1922: 60% of all births land in the more recent half, 40% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1917 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1922 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Mayzell popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1915–1953
- Peak year (1922)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 39 years of records
Mayzell by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1920s was Mayzell's strongest decade.
24 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 60% of all-time use.
Mayzell births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
11 births
- 1920s
1920s
24 births
- 1950s 5
1950s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1920s at 24 births (60% of all-time use).
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- Mayzell's decade-level peak was the 1920s (24 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1950s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1915–1953 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mayzell: Baby Name Since 1915 - 40 Births, Peak 1922." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mayzell. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mayzell draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.