Meaning not yet researched.
Mael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 195 in 2025. Its best rank was #972 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #972 in 2023; #1,104 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mael in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,104 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #972.
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Mael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 195 boys in 2025. Peak: #972 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 226 (2023).
In 2025, 195 US boys were named Mael, making it the 1,104th most common boys’ name of the year, down 48 places from #1,056 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 208 boys named Mael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #972, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 226. For comparison, it was #3,409 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mael in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 5 babies. In all, 1,353 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 981 babies named Mael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,165 US boys were named Mael; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 226. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,759 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mael ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #494 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maile (3,680 babies since 1880) and Male (1,530 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mahal are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mahal (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mael in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 10 | #494 | — |
| Arizona | 10 | #660 | — |
| New York | 21 | #705 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #732 | — |
| Florida | 20 | #769 | — |
| California | 28 | #855 | #2,172 |
| Maryland | 5 | #878 | — |
| Texas | 25 | #967 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,178 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,405 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 195 | #1,104 |
| 2024 | — | — | 208 | #1,056 |
| 2023 | — | — | 226 | #972 |
| 2022 | — | — | 164 | #1,212 |
| 2021 | — | — | 117 | #1,520 |
| 2020 | — | — | 71 | #2,011 |
| 2019 | — | — | 55 | #2,452 |
| 2018 | — | — | 45 | #2,732 |
| 2017 | — | — | 49 | #2,585 |
| 2016 | — | — | 35 | #3,269 |
| 2015 | — | — | 33 | #3,409 |
| 2014 | — | — | 20 | #4,801 |
| 2013 | — | — | 25 | #4,022 |
| 2012 | — | — | 25 | #4,088 |
| 2011 | — | — | 7 | #10,340 |
| 2010 | — | — | 14 | #6,252 |
| 2009 | — | — | 9 | #8,744 |
| 2008 | — | — | 14 | #6,284 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,651 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,237 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #12,614 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #7,945 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #10,381 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #11,796 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).