Mai
#2,998 for girls in 2025, 55 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1880 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,677since 1880
Mai over time
Rank among girls' names. Mai has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,998 | 55 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,225 | 49 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,995 | 55 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,892 | 58 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,172 | 50 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,220 | 34 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,280 | 49 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,429 | 46 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,041 | 55 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,040 | 55 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,838 | 61 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,938 | 58 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,485 | 76 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,419 | 79 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,647 | 69 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,459 | 75 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,180 | 84 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,326 | 74 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,144 | 81 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,497 | 63 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,193 | 74 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,213 | 71 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,874 | 84 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,762 | 89 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,656 | 95 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,306 | 132 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,080 | 165 | — | |
| 1994 | #901 | 213 | — | |
| 1993 | #934 | 202 | — | |
| 1992 | #955 | 201 | — | |
| 1991 | #888 | 221 | — | |
| 1990 | #793 | 254 | — | |
| 1989 | #795 | 239 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #921 | 184 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,009 | 154 | — | |
| 1986 | #950 | 166 | — | |
| 1985 | #913 | 173 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #855 | 179 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #983 | 148 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,069 | 134 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,036 | 138 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,624 | 71 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,050 | 49 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,680 | 31 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,176 | 24 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,486 | 32 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,969 | 24 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 18 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,062 | 21 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,166 | 21 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,435 | 18 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,461 | 16 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,085 | 17 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,009 | 11 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,493 | 12 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,571 | 11 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | — | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 | — | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 | — | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | #3,145 | 8 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,448 | 12 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,376 | 7 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,305 | 13 | — | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | #2,868 | 9 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,307 | 13 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,202 | 15 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,011 | 17 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,381 | 14 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,569 | 13 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,489 | 14 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,144 | 10 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,732 | 12 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,152 | 10 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,378 | 15 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,357 | 15 | — | |
| 1919 | #2,813 | 11 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,512 | 8 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,879 | 10 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,833 | 10 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,384 | 12 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,009 | 12 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,540 | 7 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,360 | 7 | — | |
| 1911 | #2,191 | 6 | — | |
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | #1,607 | 8 | — | |
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | #1,206 | 11 | — | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 | — | |
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | #1,793 | 5 | — | |
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | #1,263 | 8 | — | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | #1,416 | 6 | — | |
| 1895 | #1,426 | 6 | — | |
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | #1,332 | 5 | — | |
| 1890 | #1,338 | 5 | — | |
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | #740 | 6 | — | |
| 1880 | #738 | 6 | — | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Mai was already there! It came in at #738, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1894, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Mai
- 227 spots since 2024 (#3,225 → #2,998)
- 223 spots since 2020 (#3,221 → #2,998)
- 431 spots since 2015 (#3,429 → #2,998)
- Biggest jump: 128 spots in 1984 (#983 → #855)
- Biggest drop: 179 spots in 1995 (#901 → #1,080)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #738 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1882, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1988–1994
- Highest: 1 in 7,475 girls born in 1990 were named Mai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,223 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #738 in 1880, was only 1 in 15,166 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.2% of all girls named Mai (1,656) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12 | #738 (1880) | #739 |
| 1890s | 30 | #1,263 (1898) | #1,355 |
| 1900s | 29 | #1,206 (1907) | #1,634 |
| 1910s | 83 | #2,009 (1914) | #2,613 |
| 1920s | 128 | #2,011 (1929) | #2,677 |
| 1930s | 94 | #2,202 (1930) | #2,763 |
| 1940s | 45 | #3,139 (1944) | #4,285 |
| 1950s | 77 | #3,493 (1956) | #4,281 |
| 1960s | 107 | #3,085 (1967) | #4,292 |
| 1970s | 252 | #2,050 (1979) | #3,074 |
| 1980s | 1,586 | #795 (1989) | #1,016 |
| 1990s | 1,656 | #793 (1990) | #1,215 |
| 2000s | 746 | #2,144 (2003) | #2,356 |
| 2010s | 516 | #2,838 (2011) | #3,201 |
| 2020s | 316 | #2,892 (2021) | #3,085 |
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.
Mai in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 9,947 of them was named Mai, which outranked 92.7% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #907Shaquita174
- #907Shasta174
- #907Wendi174
- #913Mai173
- #913Gena173
- #913Jada173
- #913Krysten173
- #919Georgina172
- #919Latoria172
- #919Lisette172
Tied with 5 names at #913; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 205,357 of them was named Mai, which outranked 42.9% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,052Zacheriah10
- #4,052Zebedee10
- #4,052Zeeshan10
- #4,333Mai9
- #4,333Aakash9
- #4,333Aaryn9
- #4,333Abelino9
- #4,698Abdulla8
- #4,698Abrahan8
- #4,698Adrin8
Tied with 364 names at #4,333; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.