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Maela

#3,054 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Maël

Maela has been given to 445 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #3,054 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Maela, 2025

1 in 61,400

Maela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maela: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Maël

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maela means

Maela is a feminine form of Maël.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maela → Maël. The family’s meaning is “prince”, recorded in French with the source elements mael.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maël.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 445 girls were recorded with the name Maela between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 70 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,548 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,957 in 2020 to #3,054 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,473 in 2015 to #3,054 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maela?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 61,400
54 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 29,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,054
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
42,555 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maela sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maela was born before 2021 — so the typical Maela is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
56.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
445
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 56.9% of all recorded uses (253).

Is Maela rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−506
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,903
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,419
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.1%
Peak was 2024 (70)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,548
2024

Spellings of Maela

Maela is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 16.3% against Maela's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Maela is used

Across 1910–2025, Maela was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,451,808 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maela around the world

Where Maela ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • France
    1969–2025
    #2,007
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maela by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,054
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,903
Best rank ever
#2,548
2024
Peak year
2024
70 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
445
Count in 2025
54

Names similar to Maela

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Maela

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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