Maylie
Feminine
Maylie joins May to the -lie ending, and May itself has three possible parents: the month, the hawthorn blossom that opens in it, and the old English pet form of Mary and Margaret. All three are genuine.
How old is the name Maylie?
Maylie first appears in US birth records in 1999 — 26 years ago. The typical Maylie is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Maylie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maylie most popular?
Maylie peaked in 2025, reaching #2933 nationally. Today it ranks #2933, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Maylie
Our story of Maylie is about a syllable that three separate things arrived at. A Roman goddess gave her name to a month; the month gave its name to a flowering tree; and quite independently English families spent centuries calling their Marys and their Margarets May because it was shorter. By the nineteenth century all three were in play and nobody was distinguishing them. American naming then took the sound and gave it an ending — Maylee, Maylie, Maelie — and made something new out of a word that had already been three things at once. It is a name built on a genuine and ancient confusion, which is more interesting than a tidy answer would be.
Meaningnot established
Not established
May is genuinely ambiguous. The month is named for the Roman goddess Maia. The hawthorn is called may in English because it flowers then. And May was for centuries the everyday short form of Mary and of Margaret, which is how most nineteenth-century Mays got the name. The -lie ending is a modern American addition with no meaning. So the compound inherits an ambiguity rather than a reading.
Pronouncing Maylie
MAY-lee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Said exactly as Maylee and Maeleigh; the -lie spelling is the least common of the three and changes nothing you can hear.
Nicknames for Maylie
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
- 1999
- Most girls named
- 202557 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2933reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +54.1%57 in 2025, from 37
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.
Maylie in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Indiana.
Maylies among us
people named Maylie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 28,198 born in 2025 was named Maylie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Carlina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maylie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Carlina climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Carlina's path sketches the road Maylie is walking now.
Maylie 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 Maylie is headed
Maylie looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 16% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium 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.
Maylie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maylie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- May and Mae are both ready short forms and both are established names.
- Two easy syllables that every English speaker says correctly at first sight.
- Short and light, which pairs well with a longer surname.
- The -lie spelling reads as the English word lie, which some families would rather avoid.
- Maylie, Maylee, Maeleigh and Mailey are all in use and none is standard.
- Its meaning is genuinely triple, so any single gloss offered is a choice among three.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maylies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Maylie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Maylie in 2025?
- Maylie ranks #2933 among US girl names in 2025, with 57 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maylie?
- About 1 in every 28,198 US girls born in 2025 was named Maylie — 57 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maylie with classmates?
- Maylie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Maylie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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