Meaning not yet researched.
Maylee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 245 in 2025. Its best rank was #990 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #990 in 2016; #1,023 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maylee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,023 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #990.
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Maylee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 245 girls in 2025. Peak: #990 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 268 (2016).
In 2025, 245 US girls were named Maylee, making it the 1,023rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 4 places from #1,019 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 249 girls named Maylee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #990, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 268. For comparison, it was #1,101 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maylee in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 4,596 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,196 babies named Maylee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,329 US girls were named Maylee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 268. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,560 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maylee ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #198 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include May (50,099 babies since 1880), Miley (15,779 babies since 1880), Mylee (4,420 babies since 1880) and Mallie (3,869 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mailee, Mailey and Maeley are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mailee (639), Mailey (519), Maeley (254), Malley (211), Mayley (209), Maylei (51), Mailei (20), Mayalee (11), Mallee (11), Maelei (6), Mahaylee (5), Mayly (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 Maylee 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 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 9 | #198 | — |
| Kansas | 8 | #433 | #595 |
| Utah | 9 | #471 | #255 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #494 | #472 |
| Oregon | 7 | #528 | — |
| Arkansas | 6 | #538 | #556 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #558 | #538 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #595 | #559 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #680 | — |
| Indiana | 9 | #704 | #608 |
| Missouri | 8 | #708 | #547 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #717 | #826 |
| Michigan | 11 | #719 | #758 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #804 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #806 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #857 | #685 |
| Illinois | 10 | #901 | #1,837 |
| Alabama | 5 | #906 | — |
| Texas | 29 | #998 | #1,599 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,338 | #1,349 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,384 | #1,194 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,400 | #1,029 |
| New York | 5 | #2,302 | #2,433 |
| California | 7 | #2,680 | #1,700 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 245 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 2024 | 249 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 2023 | 220 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 2022 | 257 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 2021 | 237 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 2020 | 227 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 2019 | 202 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 2018 | 212 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 2017 | 212 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 2016 | 268 | #990 | — | — |
| 2015 | 236 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 2014 | 228 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 2013 | 236 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 2012 | 216 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 2011 | 217 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 2010 | 169 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 2009 | 200 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 2008 | 159 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 2007 | 86 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,747 | — | — |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,814 | — | — |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,880 | — | — |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,945 | — | — |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,373 | — | — |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,678 | — | — |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,092 | — | — |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,723 | — | — |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,511 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,630 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,190 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,311 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,428 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,110 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,070 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,338 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,512 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,211 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,343 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,332 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,836 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,472 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,779 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,810 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,662 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,214 | — | — |
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).