Maycen
#8,678 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maycen has been given to 174 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #8,678 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 70% boys, 30% girls all-time.
Babies named Maycen, 2025
1 in 368,000
Maycen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Maycen over time
In 2025, Maycen went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Maycen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,678
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maycen 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maycen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maycens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maycen was born before 2015 — so the typical Maycen is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 76.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 122
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 76.2% of all recorded uses (93).
Is Maycen 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
- −1,305
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.82×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 75.0%
- Peak was 2014 (12)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.4% average annual change
Spellings of Maycen
Maycen is not the most common spelling — Jayden is, with 30.3% against Maycen'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.
Maycen around the world
Where Maycen 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 Australia2009–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Maycen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Maycen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maycen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.