Mailyn
Feminine
Mailyn joins Mai to the -lyn ending, and Mai is a real word in Vietnamese, Japanese and French at once.
How old is the name Mailyn?
Mailyn first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Mailyn is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Mailyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mailyn most popular?
Mailyn peaked in 2023, reaching #2936 nationally. Today it ranks #4460, 1,524 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Mailyn
Ours, offered as ours. Mai carries three separate good meanings in three unrelated languages — a new year blossom in Vietnamese, a dance in Japanese, the month of May in French — and all three are pleasant, which is not always how these coincidences fall. American and Spanish-language naming attached the -lyn ending without needing to choose among them. The Vietnamese blossom is the one with the most weight behind it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established for the compound. Vietnamese mai is the yellow apricot blossom of the lunar new year; Japanese Mai is a dance; French mai is the month of May. The -lyn ending is a modern American suffix.
Pronouncing Mailyn
MAY-lin
Two syllables, first stressed. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Mailyn
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1978
- Most girls named
- 202357 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2936reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −32.6%31 in 2025, from 46
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mailyn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mai in Vietnamese — related form
- Maelyn in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Mailyns among us
people named Mailyn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 51,847 born in 2025 was named Mailyn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mailyn
- #4460
- Mailyn on the 2025 chart
- #761
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mailyn went to 31 girls in 2025, but Maylin, Maylynn and Maylyn and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 199, which makes it the 761st most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,699 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 8,077 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 51,847 for Mailyn itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Raena test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mailyn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Raena climbed just as high around 2005, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Raena's path sketches the road Mailyn is walking now.
Mailyn sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Mailyn is headed
Mailyn looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 29% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Mailyn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mailyn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Mai and Lyn are both complete names in their own right.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Mailyn, Maelyn and Maylin are all in use and none is dominant.
- It is close to Marilyn and Madelyn in an American ear.
- There is no documented meaning for the compound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mailyns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Mailyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mailyn?
- Mailyn is one of 5 recorded spellings. Maylin is the more common one — 123 births in 2025 against 31 for Mailyn.
- How popular is the name Mailyn in 2025?
- Mailyn ranks #4460 among US girl names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mailyn?
- About 1 in every 51,847 US girls born in 2025 was named Mailyn — 31 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mailyn with classmates?
- Mailyn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Mailyn
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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