Meaning not yet researched.
Maelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 180 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,189 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,189 in 2024; #1,249 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maelyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,249 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,189.
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Maelyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 180 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,189 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 201 (2024).
In 2025, 180 US girls were named Maelyn, making it the 1,249th most common girls’ name of the year, down 60 places from #1,189 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 201 girls named Maelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,189, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 201. For comparison, it was #1,945 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maelyn in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 6 babies. In all, 2,490 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,035 babies named Maelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,509 US girls were named Maelyn; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 201. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,929 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maelyn ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #561 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mahlon (5,683 babies since 1880), Maylin (3,133 babies since 1880), Maelynn (2,916 babies since 1880) and Malin (1,070 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Maelyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 9 | #561 | — |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #590 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #745 | — |
| Indiana | 8 | #775 | #828 |
| Ohio | 12 | #777 | #1,030 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #817 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #883 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #904 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #921 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,004 | — |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,027 | #1,347 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,074 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,346 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,506 | #1,766 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,699 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,870 | #2,005 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 180 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 2024 | 201 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 2023 | 182 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 2022 | 170 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 2019 | 187 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 2018 | 100 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 2016 | 94 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 2015 | 104 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 2013 | 99 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 2012 | 93 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,332 | — | — |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,564 | — | — |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,430 | — | — |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,226 | — | — |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,656 | — | — |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,347 | — | — |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,997 | — | — |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,842 | — | — |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,936 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,682 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,715 | — | — |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,970 | — | — |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,365 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,986 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,474 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,144 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,285 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,699 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,306 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,387 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,939 | — | — |
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).