Maylen
#9,260 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maylen has been given to 847 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #9,260 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 76 recorded.
Babies named Maylen, 2025
1 in 301,000
Maylen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Maylen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 146,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,260
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maylen 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maylen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maylens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maylen was born before 2014 — so the typical Maylen is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 52.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 840
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 52.7% of all recorded uses (443).
Is Maylen 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
- −5,246
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −6,000
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,745
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.24×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 14.5%
- Peak was 2012 (76)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.8% average annual change
Spellings of Maylen
Maylen is not the most common spelling — Kaylee is, with 14.2% against Maylen's 0.08%.
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 Maylen is used
Across 1910–2025, Maylen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 189,615 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3Arizona1 in —
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5New Jersey1 in —
- 6New York1 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. Maylen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Maylen around the world
Where Maylen 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.
- Norway1880–2008#459in 2008
Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.
Maylen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Maylen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maylen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.