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Mayella

#12,721 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Mayella has been given to 117 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #12,721 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Mayella, 2025

1 in 474,000

Mayella over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mayella: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mayella means

Mayella is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mayella is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 117 girls were recorded with the name Mayella between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2017; its best national rank was #8,926 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,762 in 2020 to #12,721 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,967 in 2015 to #12,721 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mayella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,721
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mayella 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mayella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mayellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mayella was born before 2019 — so the typical Mayella is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
117
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.7% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Mayella 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
−2,719
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−959
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,246
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.3%
Peak was 2017 (12)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,926
2019

Spellings of Mayella

Mayella is not the most common spelling — Marcella is, with 54.4% against Mayella's 0.10%.

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.

Mayella around the world

Where Mayella 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
    2006–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Mayella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,721
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 959
Best rank ever
#8,926
2019
Peak year
2017
12 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
117
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Mayella

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

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Sibling names for Mayella

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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