Maelee
#2,316 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maelee has been given to 1,587 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,316 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 93 recorded.
Babies named Maelee, 2025
1 in 42,000
Maelee over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Maelee?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 42,000
- 79 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 20,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,316
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 29,088 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maelee sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maelee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maelees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maelee was born before 2015 — so the typical Maelee is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 48.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,587
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 48.7% of all recorded uses (773).
Is Maelee 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
- −237
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +766
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −196
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.87×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 84.9%
- Peak was 2024 (93)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.1% average annual change
Spellings of Maelee
Maelee is not the most common spelling — Kaylee is, with 20.4% against Maelee's 0.23%.
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 Maelee is used
Across 2016–2025, Maelee was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 20,582 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).
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.
Maelee around the world
Where Maelee 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.
- France2005–2021#6,278in 2021
- Canada2012–2017#3,407in 2017
- South Australia1988–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Maelee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maelee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maelee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.