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Maitland

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Possibly inhospitable

Maitland has been given to 352 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1917, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 64% boys, 36% girls all-time.

Babies named Maitland, 2020

1 in 668,000

Maitland over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Maitland over time

In 2020, Maitland went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19142020

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Maitland: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly inhospitable

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maitland means

Maitland may mean “inhospitable”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Maitland is used in English (Rare).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 226 boys were recorded with the name Maitland between 1914 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1917; its best national rank was #2,149 in 1917.

In the United States, 126 girls were recorded with the name Maitland between 1919 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1995; its best national rank was #4,073 in 1939.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Maitland?

Maitland had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maitland sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maitland. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maitlands were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maitland was born before 1933 — so the typical Maitland is around 92 today.

Median birth year
1933
About 92 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
27.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
51
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1920s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Maitland 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (14)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,149
1917

Spellings of Maitland

Maitland is not the most common spelling — Marland is, with 84.4% against Maitland's 15.6%.

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 Maitland is used

Across 1910–2025, Maitland was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Maitland has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maitland around the world

Where Maitland 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.

  • South Australia
    1989–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maitland by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,149
1917
Peak year
1917
14 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
226
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,073
1939
Peak year
1995
22 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
126
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maitland

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Maitland

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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