Mayme

Where Mayme comes from

Mayme hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1867
    Mayme Kelso born
    actress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #132 among girls — 124 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Mayme Gehrue born
    American actress and dancer
  4. 1885
    Peak, #126
    198 babies named Mayme — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1929
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #715.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Mayme Kelso · actress, 1867–1946
  • Mayme Gehrue · American actress and dancer, 1883–2000
  • Mayme Logsdon · American mathematician, 1881–1967

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.