Maye
#10,610 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maye has been given to 1,956 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #10,610 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 58 recorded.
Babies named Maye, 2025
1 in 368,000
Maye 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Maye?
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 girls only
- 1 in 179,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #10,610
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maye 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 Maye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mayes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maye was born before 1917 — so the typical Maye is around 108 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 21.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.2%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 208
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 21.7% of all recorded uses (424).
Is Maye 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
- −1,262
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,902
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +13
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.90×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 15.5%
- Peak was 1921 (58)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.2% average annual change
Spellings of Maye
Maye is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 59.5% against Maye'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.
Where Maye is used
Across 1910–2025, Maye was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 458,487 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 2Alabama1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Iowa1 in —
- 5Kentucky1 in —
- 6Missouri1 in —
- 7Mississippi1 in —
- 8North Carolina1 in —
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. Maye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Maye around the world
Where Maye 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 & Wales2002–2024#5,892in 2024
- France1984–2018#6,506in 2018
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Maye by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maye
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maye
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.