Maelynn
#1,055 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maelynn has been given to 2,916 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #1,055 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 261 recorded.
Babies named Maelynn, 2025
1 in 14,200
Maelynn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Maelynn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 14,200
- 234 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 6,870
- 0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,055
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 9,821 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maelynn 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 9,821 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maelynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maelynns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maelynn was born before 2019 — so the typical Maelynn is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 46.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,916
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (1,367).
Is Maelynn 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
- −61
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +60
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +803
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.11×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 89.7%
- Peak was 2024 (261)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.8% average annual change
Spellings of Maelynn
Maelynn is not the most common spelling — Madelyn is, with 24.8% against Maelynn's 0.62%.
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 Maelynn is used
Across 2016–2025, Maelynn was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 2,778 girls, against 1 in 8,470 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 33,333).
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.
Maelynn around the world
Where Maelynn 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.
- France2003–2024#4,572in 2024
- Canada2009–2023#3,391in 2023
- South Australia1990–1990#691in 1990
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.
Maelynn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maelynn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Maelynn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maelynn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Maelynn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.