Meaning not yet researched.
Male: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #679 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #679 in 1991. No US babies were recorded with the name Male in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #679 in 1991.
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Male: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #679 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 223 (1991).
Fewer than five US boys were named Male in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #679, reached in 1991. That year also had the most boys given the name: 223. For comparison, it was #5,198 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Male in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 5 babies. In all, 1,530 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,017 babies named Male.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US boys named Male.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Maile (3,680 babies since 1880) and Mael (1,353 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mayel and Mauel 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: Mayel (57), Mauel (15).
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 Male in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | — | — | 18 | #5,198 |
| 2014 | — | — | 64 | #2,146 |
| 2013 | — | — | 50 | #2,484 |
| 2012 | — | — | 36 | #3,150 |
| 2011 | — | — | 18 | #5,115 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,787 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,754 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,244 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #6,927 |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #10,836 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,181 |
| 2002 | — | — | 21 | #3,993 |
| 2001 | — | — | 21 | #3,925 |
| 2000 | — | — | 32 | #2,843 |
| 1999 | — | — | 23 | #3,448 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,156 |
| 1997 | — | — | 26 | #2,953 |
| 1996 | — | — | 43 | #2,040 |
| 1995 | — | — | 105 | #1,116 |
| 1994 | — | — | 131 | #964 |
| 1993 | — | — | 126 | #960 |
| 1992 | — | — | 104 | #1,081 |
| 1991 | — | — | 223 | #679 |
| 1990 | — | — | 211 | #702 |
| 1989 | — | — | 35 | #2,053 |
| 1988 | — | — | 67 | #1,256 |
| 1987 | — | — | 36 | #1,820 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,574 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,235 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,815 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,897 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,783 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,516 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,414 |
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).