Maye

Where Maye comes from

Maye hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1903
    Peak, #504
    40 babies named Maye — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1929
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,098.
  4. 1948
    Maye Musk born
    Canadian-South African model and dietitian
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Maye Musk · Canadian-South African model and dietitian, born 1948

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.