Maelie
#3,554 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maelie has been given to 673 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #3,554 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 71 recorded.
Babies named Maelie, 2025
1 in 77,100
Maelie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Maelie?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 77,100
- 43 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 37,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,554
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 53,441 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maelie 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maelie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maelies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maelie was born before 2018 — so the typical Maelie is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 48.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 673
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 48.7% of all recorded uses (328).
Is Maelie 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
- −1,032
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +330
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +17
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.98×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 60.6%
- Peak was 2024 (71)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.8% average annual change
Spellings of Maelie
Maelie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 27.7% against Maelie's 0.03%.
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 Maelie is used
Across 1910–2025, Maelie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 587,940 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Indiana1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Texas1 in —
- 5Utah1 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. Maelie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Maelie around the world
Where Maelie 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 & Wales2010–2025#5,927in 2025
- France1991–2025#676in 2025
- Canada2000–2024#294in 2024
- South Australia2008–2010#801in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Maelie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maelie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maelie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.