Maelyn
#1,249 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maelyn has been given to 2,490 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #1,249 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 201 recorded.
Babies named Maelyn, 2025
1 in 18,400
Maelyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Maelyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 18,400
- 180 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 8,930
- 0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,249
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 12,767 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maelyn 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 12,767 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maelyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maelyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maelyn was born before 2018 — so the typical Maelyn is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,490
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (1,035).
Is Maelyn 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
- −60
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +158
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +696
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.73×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 89.6%
- Peak was 2024 (201)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.3% average annual change
Spellings of Maelyn
Maelyn is not the most common spelling — Evelyn is, with 36.0% against Maelyn's 0.14%.
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 Maelyn is used
Across 2016–2025, Maelyn was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 11,325 across all states with data. It was least common in Colorado (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Kentucky1 in 5,000
- 2Indiana1 in 5,263
- 3North Carolina1 in 5,263
- 4Tennessee1 in 6,667
- 5Ohio1 in 7,143
- 6Pennsylvania1 in 7,143
- 7Virginia1 in 7,143
- 8Alabama1 in 7,692
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.
Maelyn around the world
Where Maelyn 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.
- France1997–2025#3,101in 2025
- Canada2009–2024#2,710in 2024
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Maelyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maelyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Maelyn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maelyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Maelyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.