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#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201904peak #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—
2001—
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 1904

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 1904

girls
#537
38 births · 1 in 7,246 girls

Top girls' names in 1904

  1. #1Mary14,961
  2. #2Helen6,488
  3. #3Anna5,330
  4. #4Margaret5,302
  5. #5Ruth4,900
  6. #6Elizabeth3,833
  7. #7Marie3,595
  8. #8Florence3,572
  9. #9Mildred3,525
  10. #10Dorothy3,477
  11. #537Maye38
More about 1904

girls

275,362 girls got a published name in 1904; 1 in 7,246 of them was named Maye, which outranked 75.2% of the 2,165 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Maye
  1. #529Melva39
  2. #529Theodora39
  3. #529Vernie39
  4. #537Maye38
  5. #537Belva38
  6. #537Hilma38
  7. #537Jettie38
  8. #545Adelia37
  9. #545Claudie37
  10. #545Cordie37

Tied with 7 names at #537; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1903
Risers
  1. ↑ 882Electa#1,592 → #710
  2. ↑ 882Edris#1,792 → #910
  3. ↑ 827Lannie#1,792 → #965
  4. ↑ 827Madalyn#1,792 → #965
  5. ↑ 800Amber#1,440 → #640
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,041Genie#836 → #1,877
  2. ↓ 981Doshie#896 → #1,877
  3. ↓ 981Matilde#896 → #1,877
  4. ↓ 908Aida#969 → #1,877
  5. ↓ 908Silvia#969 → #1,877

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

See the top 100 for 1904 →