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Maylee

#1,023 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maylee has been given to 4,596 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #1,023 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 268 recorded.

Babies named Maylee, 2025

1 in 13,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maylee: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maylee means

Maylee is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maylee is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,596 girls were recorded with the name Maylee between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 268 in 2016; its best national rank was #990 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,084 in 2020 to #1,023 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,101 in 2015 to #1,023 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 Maylee?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,500
245 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,560
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,023
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,380 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maylee 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,380 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maylee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maylees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maylee was born before 2016 — so the typical Maylee is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,596
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.8% of all recorded uses (2,196).

Is Maylee 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
−4
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+61
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+78
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.04×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.4%
Peak was 2016 (268)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#990
2016

Spellings of Maylee

Maylee is not the most common spelling — Kaylee is, with 12.5% against Maylee's 0.41%.

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 Maylee is used

Across 2016–2025, Maylee was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 1,639 girls, against 1 in 6,809 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

161 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 1,639
  2. 2Utah1 in 1,639
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 2,000
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 2,041
  5. 5Missouri1 in 2,381
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 2,381
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 2,439
  8. 8Indiana1 in 2,941

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.

Maylee around the world

Where Maylee 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
    2012–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    1995–2025
    #1,577
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1983–2010
    #521
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Maylee

People whose public names include Maylee, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maylee in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Maylee. Linked forms have their own page here.

MayMileyMylee

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Maylee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,023
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 61
Best rank ever
#990
2016
Peak year
2016
268 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,596
Count in 2025
245

Names similar to Maylee

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

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Names with a curve like Maylee

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

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Sibling names for Maylee

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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