Maelyn
#1,248 for girls in 2025, 180 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 201 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,490since 1982
Maelyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Maelyn has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,248 | 180 |
| 2024 | #1,188 | 201 |
| 2023 | #1,264 | 182 |
| 2022 | #1,367 | 170 |
| 2021 | #1,584 | 132 |
| 2020 | #1,398 | 156 |
| 2019 | #1,247 | 187 |
| 2018 | #1,968 | 100 |
| 2017 | #1,889 | 107 |
| 2016 | #2,084 | 94 |
| 2015 | #1,937 | 104 |
| 2014 | #2,049 | 95 |
| 2013 | #1,977 | 99 |
| 2012 | #2,064 | 93 |
| 2011 | #2,298 | 81 |
| 2010 | #2,476 | 75 |
| 2009 | #3,298 | 50 |
| 2008 | #3,529 | 46 |
| 2007 | #4,380 | 34 |
| 2006 | #4,165 | 35 |
| 2005 | #4,581 | 29 |
| 2004 | #4,287 | 32 |
| 2003 | #3,946 | 34 |
| 2002 | #4,767 | 25 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
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| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
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| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Maelyn! It came in at #9,237, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1988, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Maelyn
- 60 spots since 2024 (#1,188 → #1,248)
- 150 spots since 2020 (#1,398 → #1,248)
- 689 spots since 2015 (#1,937 → #1,248)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2024 at #1,188 (201 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,061 girls born in 2024 were named Maelyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,929 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 41.6% of all girls named Maelyn (1,035) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 13 | #9,237 (1982) | #9,459 |
| 1990s | 96 | #5,799 (1998) | #8,680 |
| 2000s | 325 | #3,298 (2009) | #4,427 |
| 2010s | 1,035 | #1,247 (2019) | #1,999 |
| 2020s | 1,021 | #1,188 (2024) | #1,342 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Maelyn in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
More about 2023
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1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 8,816 of them was named Maelyn, which outranked 92.8% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,255Odette183
- #1,255Sonia183
- #1,255Zia183
- #1,264Maelyn182
- #1,264Cara182
- #1,264Harleigh182
- #1,264India182
- #1,269Aarna181
- #1,269Emberlyn181
- #1,269Emeri181
Tied with 4 names at #1,264; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.