Maiella
#14,278 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maiella has been given to 54 babies in the U.S. since 2016. In 2025 it ranked #14,278 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Maiella, 2025
1 in 553,000
Maiella 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Maiella?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,278
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maiella 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maiella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maiellas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maiella was born before 2022 — so the typical Maiella is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 81.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 54
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 81.5% of all recorded uses (44).
Is Maiella 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
- −2,529
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,310
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 66.7%
- Peak was 2022 (9)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.8% average annual change
Spellings of Maiella
Maiella is not the most common spelling — Marcella is, with 32.9% against Maiella'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.
Maiella by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maiella
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maiella
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.