Maysun
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maysun has been given to 101 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 2004, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.
Babies named Maysun, 2016
1 in 612,000
Maysun 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Maysun over time
In 2016, Maysun went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Maysun?
Maysun had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 612,000
- 6 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 295,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 423,922 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maysun sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maysun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maysuns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maysun was born before 2005 — so the typical Maysun is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 58.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 96
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (56).
Is Maysun 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2004 (11)
- Years since peak
- 21
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.8% average annual change
Spellings of Maysun
Maysun is not the most common spelling — Madyson is, with 41.0% against Maysun's 0.29%.
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.
Maysun around the world
Where Maysun 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 & Wales2011–2025#5,927in 2025
- South Australia2005–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Maysun by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Maysun
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maysun
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.