Maple

#1,092 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maple has been given to 3,286 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #1,092 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 221 recorded.

Babies named Maple, 2025

1 in 15,000

Maple over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maple: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maple means

Maple is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maple is used in Ulwa (New Guinea).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,281 girls were recorded with the name Maple between 1896 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 221 in 2025; its best national rank was #957 in 1902.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,599 in 2020 to #1,092 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,493 in 2015 to #1,092 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Maple between 1917 and 1917. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1917; its best national rank was #4,340 in 1917.

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.

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How common is Maple?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 15,000; 221 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 7,270; 0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #1,092; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 10,399 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Maple sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,399 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maple. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maples were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maple was born before 2014 — so the typical Maple is around 11 today.

Median birth year: 2014; About 11 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 58.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 2,214; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (1,061).

Is Maple 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: +91; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +507; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,401; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 3.03×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (221)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #957; 1902

Spellings of Maple

Maple is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 43.5% against Maple's 0.26%.

Marie43.5%540,077
Mae9.2%114,835
Mamie6.3%77,907
Gayle4.9%61,357
Mable4.3%53,251
Maude3.7%45,754
Marla3.1%38,781
Marley2.7%33,045

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 Maple is used

Across 2016–2025, Maple was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 11,767 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

125 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Colorado1 in 4,000
2Washington1 in 4,348
3Oregon1 in 4,762
4Utah1 in 5,263
5Michigan1 in 5,882
6Minnesota1 in 5,882
7New Hampshire1 in 7,143
8Tennessee1 in 7,143

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.

Maple around the world

Where Maple 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.

England & Wales
2007–2025
#1,079
in 2025
Scotland
2022–2024
#790
in 2024
Canada
1995–2024
#1,075
in 2024
South Australia
2004–2013
#536
in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maple by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #1,092
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 507
Best rank ever: #957; 1902
Peak year: 2025; 221 that year
First recorded: 1896
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 3,281
Count in 2025: 221

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,340; 1917
Peak year: 1917; 5 that year
First recorded: 1917
Last recorded: 1917
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Maple

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

Temple Apple Dimple Ople Euple Dymple Demple Mayple Ample Mapuana Graple

Names with a curve like Maple

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maple, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Violetta Maizie Odette Lotus Noella Marceline Artemis Clementine Evalina Julietta Ever Serafina

Sibling names for Maple

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

For a sister

Hollis Chiara Annelise Ines Ira Khadija Xochitl Lucie

For a brother

Sami Hasan Wylie Shlomo Rishi Yitzchok Joan Lucius

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