Mael
- #1,097 for boys in 2025, 195 births
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 226 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,353since 2002
Mael over time
Rank among boys' names. Mael has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,097 | 195 |
| 2024 | #1,055 | 208 |
| 2023 | #971 | 226 |
| 2022 | #1,209 | 164 |
| 2021 | #1,514 | 117 |
| 2020 | #1,996 | 71 |
| 2019 | #2,421 | 55 |
| 2018 | #2,708 | 45 |
| 2017 | #2,566 | 49 |
| 2016 | #3,230 | 35 |
| 2015 | #3,365 | 33 |
| 2014 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #3,964 | 25 |
| 2012 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 2011 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #6,070 | 14 |
| 2007 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #10,667 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mael! It came in at #10,667, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2002–2003, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Mael is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#467 · 1 in 2,702
- Arizona#634 · 1 in 3,272
- New York#692 · 1 in 4,020
- Pennsylvania#704 · 1 in 4,355
- Florida#754 · 1 in 4,777
Best ever in a state: #467 in Massachusetts, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #467 | 10 | 1 in 2,702 |
| Arizona | #634 | 10 | 1 in 3,272 |
| New York | #692 | 21 | 1 in 4,020 |
| Pennsylvania | #704 | 12 | 1 in 4,355 |
| Florida | #754 | 20 | 1 in 4,777 |
| Maryland | #809 | 5 | 1 in 4,579 |
| California | #845 | 28 | 1 in 6,267 |
| Texas | #953 | 25 | 1 in 7,002 |
| Georgia | #1,096 | 7 | 1 in 7,174 |
| Ohio | #1,267 | 5 | 1 in 10,507 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Mael
- 42 spots since 2024 (#1,055 → #1,097)
- 899 spots since 2020 (#1,996 → #1,097)
- Biggest jump: 238 spots in 2023
- Biggest drop: 84 spots in 2024
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2023 at #971 (226 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2023
- Highest: 1 in 7,569 boys born in 2023 were named Mael (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,759 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 72.5% of all boys named Mael (981) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 2000s | 64 | #6,070 (2008) | #8,924 |
| 2010s | 308 | #2,421 (2019) | #4,260 |
| 2020s | 981 | #971 (2023) | #1,307 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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