Maye
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 1903 · 40 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,956since 1880
Maye over time
Rank among girls' names. Maye has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | — | |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | — | |
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| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
| 1950 | #3,423 | 10 |
| 1949 | #3,176 | 11 |
| 1948 | #2,701 | 14 |
| 1947 | #2,769 | 14 |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 |
| 1945 | #2,149 | 16 |
| 1944 | #2,946 | 10 |
| 1943 | #2,079 | 18 |
| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 |
| 1941 | #2,272 | 14 |
| 1940 | #2,424 | 12 |
| 1939 | #2,125 | 15 |
| 1938 | #2,225 | 14 |
| 1937 | #1,355 | 29 |
| 1936 | #2,689 | 10 |
| 1935 | #2,095 | 15 |
| 1934 | #1,481 | 25 |
| 1933 | #1,970 | 16 |
| 1932 | #1,957 | 17 |
| 1931 | #1,803 | 19 |
| 1930 | #2,110 | 16 |
| 1929 | #2,098 | 16 |
| 1928 | #1,425 | 30 |
| 1927 | #1,619 | 26 |
| 1926 | #1,667 | 25 |
| 1925 | #1,466 | 31 |
| 1924 | #1,566 | 29 |
| 1923 | #1,490 | 30 |
| 1922 | #1,190 | 42 |
| 1921 | #969 | 58 |
| 1920 | #1,005 | 54 |
| 1919 | #1,017 | 50 |
| 1918 | #1,165 | 41 |
| 1917 | #1,205 | 36 |
| 1916 | #915 | 55 |
| 1915 | #958 | 48 |
| 1914 | #888 | 43 |
| 1913 | #810 | 42 |
| 1912 | #820 | 37 |
| 1911 | #686 | 40 |
| 1910 | #753 | 32 |
| 1909 | #747 | 29 |
| 1908 | #664 | 34 |
| 1907 | #694 | 30 |
| 1906 | #776 | 22 |
| 1905 | #642 | 30 |
| 1904 | #537 | 38 |
| 1903 | #504 | 40 |
| 1902 | #667 | 25 |
| 1901 | #723 | 20 |
| 1900 | #576 | 36 |
| 1899 | #756 | 18 |
| 1898 | #586 | 30 |
| 1897 | #594 | 26 |
| 1896 | #670 | 22 |
| 1895 | #538 | 30 |
| 1894 | #557 | 27 |
| 1893 | #614 | 22 |
| 1892 | #579 | 23 |
| 1891 | #559 | 22 |
| 1890 | #617 | 18 |
| 1889 | #600 | 18 |
| 1888 | #558 | 20 |
| 1887 | #560 | 16 |
| 1886 | #508 | 19 |
| 1885 | #542 | 16 |
| 1884 | #583 | 13 |
| 1883 | #579 | 11 |
| 1882 | #908 | 5 |
| 1881 | #539 | 10 |
| 1880 | #580 | 9 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Maye was already there! It came in at #580, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Maye is popular in 1882
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Maye
- 1,161 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #10,107)
- 3,346 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #10,107)
- 41 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 329 spots in 1883 (#908 → #579)
- Biggest drop: 369 spots in 1882 (#539 → #908)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1903 at #504 (40 births)
- Births halved by 1929, 26 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1880–1916
- Highest: 1 in 6,549 girls born in 1903 were named Maye (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 21.7% of all girls named Maye (424) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 137 | #508 (1886) | #596 |
| 1890s | 238 | #538 (1895) | #607 |
| 1900s | 304 | #504 (1903) | #653 |
| 1910s | 424 | #686 (1911) | #922 |
| 1920s | 341 | #969 (1921) | #1,450 |
| 1930s | 176 | #1,355 (1937) | #1,981 |
| 1940s | 128 | #2,079 (1943) | #2,738 |
| 1950s | 41 | #3,423 (1950) | #4,917 |
| 1960s | 12 | #5,309 (1961) | #5,850 |
| 1970s | 5 | #8,324 (1971) | #8,324 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 10 | #13,386 (1995) | #13,754 |
| 2000s | 29 | #11,599 (2008) | #13,401 |
| 2010s | 55 | #10,148 (2015) | #12,210 |
| 2020s | 56 | #7,640 (2023) | #10,742 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Maye in 1882
Top girls' names in 1882
More about 1882
girls
107,847 girls got a published name in 1882; 1 in 21,569 of them was named Maye, which outranked 11.7% of the 1,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 120 names at #908; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 380Clementine#740 → #360
- ↑ 337Lissie#830 → #493
- ↑ 323Lonnie#830 → #507
- ↑ 300Erna#830 → #530
- ↑ 300Hedwig#830 → #530
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.