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Mayme

Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Mamie

Mayme has been given to 10,928 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 291 recorded.

Babies named Mayme, 2024

1 in 418,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mayme: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Mamie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mayme means

Mayme belongs to the name family reached through Mayme → Mamie → Mary → Marie → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mayme is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mamie, Mary, Marie, Maria and מרים.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,928 girls were recorded with the name Mayme between 1880 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 291 in 1915; its best national rank was #127 in 1885.

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 Mayme?

Mayme had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mayme 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mayme. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maymes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mayme was born before 1909 — so the typical Mayme is around 116 today.

Median birth year
1909
About 116 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
20.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
576
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1910s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (2,208).

Is Mayme 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (291)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#127
1885

Spellings of Mayme

Mayme is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 36.2% against Mayme's 0.73%.

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 Mayme is used

Across 1910–2025, Mayme was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 38,954 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

024 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 4,167
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 11,111
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 11,111
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 12,500
  5. 5Missouri1 in 20,000
  6. 6North Dakota1 in 20,000
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 20,000
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 25,000

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. Mayme has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mayme around the world

Where Mayme 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
    1991–1991
    #669
    in 1991

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

Notable people named Mayme

People whose public names include Mayme, 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.

Mayme by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#127
1885
Peak year
1915
291 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
10,928
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mayme

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

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Names with a curve like Mayme

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

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Sibling names for Mayme

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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