Mairene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mairene has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2006. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Mairene, 2007
1 in 800,000
Mairene 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mairene?
Mairene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 800,000
- 5 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 554,207 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mairene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mairene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mairenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mairene was born before 2006 — so the typical Mairene is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Mairene 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2006 (6)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Mairene
Mairene is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 66.6% against Mairene's <0.01%.
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.
Mairene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mairene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mairene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.