Meaning not yet researched.
Maryellen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #432 in 1944.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #432 in 1944; #5,654 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maryellen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,654 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1944, at #432.
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Maryellen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 girls in 2025. Peak: #432 in 1944 · most girls in one year: 472 (1960).
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Maryellen, making it the 5,654th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,186 places from #6,840 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 17 girls named Maryellen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #432, reached in 1944. The most girls given the name in a single year was 472, in 1960. For comparison, it was #5,773 in 2015 and #502 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maryellen in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 5 babies. In all, 13,144 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,970 babies named Maryellen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 213 US girls were named Maryellen; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Mariellen, Maryhelen and Maryelle 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mariellen (1,166), Maryhelen (1,020), Maryelle (38), Maryeileen (10), Maryellyn (5).
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 Maryellen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,654 | — | — |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,840 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,578 | — | — |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,746 | — | — |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,351 | — | — |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,265 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,929 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,697 | — | — |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,714 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,229 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,773 | — | — |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,568 | — | — |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,430 | — | — |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,199 | — | — |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,481 | — | — |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,057 | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,236 | — | — |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,837 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,247 | — | — |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,846 | — | — |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,665 | — | — |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,150 | — | — |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,000 | — | — |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,857 | — | — |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,842 | — | — |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,848 | — | — |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,935 | — | — |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,794 | — | — |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,340 | — | — |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,939 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,261 | — | — |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,691 | — | — |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,863 | — | — |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,810 | — | — |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,820 | — | — |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,628 | — | — |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,326 | — | — |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,830 | — | — |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1983 | 65 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 1982 | 70 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1981 | 85 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1979 | 89 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1978 | 91 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1977 | 91 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1976 | 75 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1975 | 98 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1974 | 72 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1973 | 105 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1972 | 90 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1971 | 106 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1970 | 170 | #818 | — | — |
| 1969 | 144 | #874 | — | — |
| 1968 | 153 | #823 | — | — |
| 1967 | 197 | #696 | — | — |
| 1966 | 226 | #637 | — | — |
| 1965 | 265 | #586 | — | — |
| 1964 | 361 | #515 | — | — |
| 1963 | 354 | #516 | — | — |
| 1962 | 381 | #495 | — | — |
| 1961 | 417 | #477 | — | — |
| 1960 | 472 | #450 | — | — |
| 1959 | 373 | #504 | — | — |
| 1958 | 337 | #527 | — | — |
| 1957 | 268 | #590 | — | — |
| 1956 | 254 | #596 | — | — |
| 1955 | 271 | #551 | — | — |
| 1954 | 298 | #516 | — | — |
| 1953 | 254 | #548 | — | — |
| 1952 | 251 | #542 | — | — |
| 1951 | 294 | #480 | — | — |
| 1950 | 259 | #502 | — | — |
| 1949 | 276 | #484 | — | — |
| 1948 | 278 | #481 | — | — |
| 1947 | 308 | #468 | — | — |
| 1946 | 278 | #470 | — | — |
| 1945 | 225 | #482 | — | — |
| 1944 | 276 | #432 | — | — |
| 1943 | 237 | #478 | — | — |
| 1942 | 206 | #518 | — | — |
| 1941 | 201 | #490 | — | — |
| 1940 | 178 | #517 | — | — |
| 1939 | 144 | #561 | — | — |
| 1938 | 106 | #670 | — | — |
| 1937 | 107 | #660 | — | — |
| 1936 | 112 | #625 | — | — |
| 1935 | 109 | #625 | — | — |
| 1934 | 80 | #748 | — | — |
| 1933 | 64 | #843 | — | — |
| 1932 | 75 | #786 | — | — |
| 1931 | 58 | #918 | — | — |
| 1930 | 85 | #767 | — | — |
| 1929 | 60 | #929 | — | — |
| 1928 | 66 | #912 | — | — |
| 1927 | 93 | #742 | — | — |
| 1926 | 78 | #833 | — | — |
| 1925 | 69 | #892 | — | — |
| 1924 | 110 | #711 | — | — |
| 1923 | 103 | #719 | — | — |
| 1922 | 81 | #814 | — | — |
| 1921 | 78 | #842 | — | — |
| 1920 | 71 | #863 | — | — |
| 1919 | 60 | #913 | — | — |
| 1918 | 54 | #984 | — | — |
| 1917 | 58 | #912 | — | — |
| 1916 | 36 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1915 | 48 | #961 | — | — |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,653 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,461 | — | — |
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).