Maylene
- #5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births
- Peak · girls
- 1937 · 11 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,198since 1918
Maylene over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Maylene has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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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
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 |
| 2024 | #5,148 | 25 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 |
| 2014 | #4,103 | 36 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 |
| 2012 | #3,782 | 41 |
| 2011 | #4,568 | 31 |
| 2010 | #4,974 | 28 |
| 2009 | #4,196 | 36 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 |
| 2003 | #5,586 | 21 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 |
| 2001 | #5,009 | 23 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 |
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 |
| 1954 | #2,779 | 16 |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 |
| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 |
| 1943 | #2,861 | 11 |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
| 1940 | #2,737 | 10 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 |
| 1937 | #2,570 | 11 |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
| 1935 | — | |
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| 1933 | #2,868 | 9 |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 |
| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,682 | 7 |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 |
| 1926 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,971 | 7 |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
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First appearance
1918
The first year at least five girls were named Maylene! It came in at #4,809, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1921, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Maylene is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · girls
- Texas#2,921 · 1 in 26,757
Best ever in a state: #1,093 in Arizona, 2015.
Show every state
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| Texas | #2,921 | 6 | 1 in 26,757 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 406 spots since 2024 (#5,148 → #5,554)
- 1,476 spots since 2020 (#4,078 → #5,554)
- 829 spots since 2015 (#4,725 → #5,554)
Rise & fade · girls
19 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1937 at #2,570 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1939, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 42,953
- Highest: 1 in 42,953 girls born in 2012 were named Maylene (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 73,058 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,570 in 1937, was only 1 in 96,730 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 25.0% of all girls named Maylene (299) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,809 (1918) | #4,809 |
| 1920s | 41 | #3,682 (1929) | #4,486 |
| 1930s | 48 | #2,570 (1937) | #3,281 |
| 1940s | 75 | #2,737 (1940) | #3,818 |
| 1950s | 61 | #2,779 (1954) | #4,248 |
| 1960s | 68 | #4,493 (1966) | #5,594 |
| 1970s | 59 | #5,214 (1978) | #7,233 |
| 1980s | 94 | #4,660 (1987) | #6,743 |
| 1990s | 94 | #6,073 (1998) | #8,257 |
| 2000s | 228 | #4,196 (2009) | #5,655 |
| 2010s | 299 | #3,782 (2012) | #4,754 |
| 2020s | 126 | #4,078 (2020) | #6,126 |
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.
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