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Maylene

#5,655 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maylene has been given to 1,198 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #5,655 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Maylene, 2025

1 in 151,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maylene: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maylene means

Maylene is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maylene is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,198 girls were recorded with the name Maylene between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2012; its best national rank was #2,674 in 1937.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,132 in 2020 to #5,655 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,818 in 2015 to #5,655 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 Maylene?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,655
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maylene 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maylene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maylenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maylene was born before 2002 — so the typical Maylene is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,029
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Choose a decade

2010s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (299).

Is Maylene 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
−412
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,523
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−837
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.7%
Peak was 2012 (41)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,674
1937

Spellings of Maylene

Maylene is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 22.7% against Maylene's 0.13%.

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 Maylene is used

Across 1910–2025, Maylene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 141,188 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Maylene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maylene around the world

Where Maylene 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.

  • France
    1997–2008
    #4,976
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1944–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maylene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,655
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,523
Best rank ever
#2,674
1937
Peak year
2012
41 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,198
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Maylene

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

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Sibling names for Maylene

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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