Mayli
Feminine
Mayli is a modern American spelling that sits on top of two real things: the English word May and the Chinese meili. Which one a family means depends entirely on the family, and the name works either way.
How old is the name Mayli?
Mayli first appears in US birth records in 1997 — 28 years ago. The typical Mayli is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Mayli are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mayli most popular?
Mayli peaked in 2024, reaching #2203 nationally. Today it ranks #3167, 964 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Mayli
This is our reading, offered as ours. Mayli is a spelling that lets two languages read the same name and each find something of their own in it. An English speaker sees May and a light ending. A Mandarin speaker hears something very close to a word for beauty. Neither is wrong, and neither is documented as the source — but a name that two languages can claim without argument is a genuinely useful thing to hand a child in an American family.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established for this spelling. Two genuine neighbors: English May, the month and the hawthorn blossom, long used as a name and as a short form of Mary and Margaret; and Chinese meili, beautiful, written with characters for beauty and for a fine appearance.
Pronouncing Mayli
MAY-lee
Two syllables, first stressed. Mayli, Maylee and Maeli are said the same way.
Nicknames for Mayli
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
- 1997
- Most girls named
- 202486 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2203reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −41.9%50 in 2025, from 86
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.
Mayli in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Meili in Chinese — related form
- Maylee in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Tennessee.
Maylis among us
people named Mayli are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 32,145 born in 2025 was named Mayli
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mayli
- #3167
- Mayli on the 2025 chart
- #867
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mayli went to 50 girls in 2025, but Maily and Maili are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 93, which makes it the 867th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,300 places above the chart.
- Mayli50
- Maily38
- Maili5
About 1 girl in 17,282 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 32,145 for Mayli 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 Nadiya test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mayli's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nadiya climbed just as high around 2003, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nadiya's path sketches the road Mayli is walking now.
Mayli 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 Mayli is headed
Mayli is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 120% more babies given the name than today. 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.
Mayli beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mayli in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Read correctly at sight by English speakers and easily by Mandarin speakers.
- May is inside it as an old, plain English short form.
- Two syllables and five letters, quick to write in the first years of school.
- Maylee, Maeleigh, Maylie and Mayli are all current, so the spelling will be asked for.
- There is no documented meaning for this spelling, only two neighbors.
- It sits in a very crowded group of -lee ending girls' names.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maylis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Mayli are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mayli?
- Mayli is the most-used spelling in US records — 50 of the 93 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Maily and Maili.
- How popular is the name Mayli in 2025?
- Mayli ranks #3167 among US girl names in 2025, with 50 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mayli?
- About 1 in every 32,145 US girls born in 2025 was named Mayli — 50 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mayli with classmates?
- Mayli will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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