Maye

#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births

Peak · girls
1903 · 40 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,956
since 1880

Maye over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Maye has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201882peak #504, 1903girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#10,1079
2024#8,94611
2023#7,64014
2022#9,05611
2021#15,2515
2020#13,4536
2019#10,4739
2018#12,4647
2017#14,1246
2016#12,8767
2015#10,14810
2014—
2013—
2012#10,42910
2011—
2010#14,9596
2009#12,4298
2008#11,5999
2007—
2006#17,1685
2005—
2004—
2003#12,4087
2002—
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2000—
1999—
1998#14,1225
1997—
1996—
1995#13,3865
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1971#8,3245
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1962—
1961#5,3097
1960#6,3905
1959—
1958#5,4086
1957—
1956#5,9525
1955—
1954#5,7535
1953—
1952#3,55210
1951#5,4145
1950#3,42310
1949#3,17611
1948#2,70114
1947#2,76914
1946#2,73913
1945#2,14916
1944#2,94610
1943#2,07918
1942#4,1246
1941#2,27214
1940#2,42412
1939#2,12515
1938#2,22514
1937#1,35529
1936#2,68910
1935#2,09515
1934#1,48125
1933#1,97016
1932#1,95717
1931#1,80319
1930#2,11016
1929#2,09816
1928#1,42530
1927#1,61926
1926#1,66725
1925#1,46631
1924#1,56629
1923#1,49030
1922#1,19042
1921#96958
1920#1,00554
1919#1,01750
1918#1,16541
1917#1,20536
1916#91555
1915#95848
1914#88843
1913#81042
1912#82037
1911#68640
1910#75332
1909#74729
1908#66434
1907#69430
1906#77622
1905#64230
1904#53738
1903#50440
1902#66725
1901#72320
1900#57636
1899#75618
1898#58630
1897#59426
1896#67022
1895#53830
1894#55727
1893#61422
1892#57923
1891#55922
1890#61718
1889#60018
1888#55820
1887#56016
1886#50819
1885#54216
1884#58313
1883#57911
1882#9085
1881#53910
1880#5809
First appearance
1880

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
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1903 at #504 (40 births)
  • Births halved by 1929, 26 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 38 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1880–1916
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,549
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 21.7% of all girls named Maye (424) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s137#508 (1886)#596
1890s238#538 (1895)#607
1900s304#504 (1903)#653
1910s424#686 (1911)#922
1920s341#969 (1921)#1,450
1930s176#1,355 (1937)#1,981
1940s128#2,079 (1943)#2,738
1950s41#3,423 (1950)#4,917
1960s12#5,309 (1961)#5,850
1970s5#8,324 (1971)#8,324
1980s0——
1990s10#13,386 (1995)#13,754
2000s29#11,599 (2008)#13,401
2010s55#10,148 (2015)#12,210
2020s56#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

girls
#908
5 births · 1 in 21,569 girls

Top girls' names in 1882

  1. #1Mary8,148
  2. #2Anna3,143
  3. #3Emma2,303
  4. #4Elizabeth2,186
  5. #5Minnie2,004
  6. #6Margaret1,821
  7. #7Ida1,673
  8. #8Alice1,542
  9. #9Bertha1,508
  10. #10Annie1,492
  11. #908Maye5
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).

Ranked beside Maye
  1. #813Zelda6
  2. #813Zena6
  3. #813Zita6
  4. #908Maye5
  5. #908Affie5
  6. #908Albert5
  7. #908Albertha5

Tied with 120 names at #908; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1881
Risers
  1. ↑ 380Clementine#740 → #360
  2. ↑ 337Lissie#830 → #493
  3. ↑ 323Lonnie#830 → #507
  4. ↑ 300Erna#830 → #530
  5. ↑ 300Hedwig#830 → #530
Fallers
  1. ↓ 405Leatha#503 → #908
  2. ↓ 369Grayce#539 → #908
  3. ↓ 369Maye#539 → #908
  4. ↓ 369Rella#539 → #908
  5. ↓ 326Honora#582 → #908

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1882 →