Maylin
Feminine · “beautiful forest”
Maylin is May joined to the -lin ending, and it is also a Chinese name — mei lin, beautiful forest, which arrives at the same spelling from the other side of the world.
How old is the name Maylin?
Maylin first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Maylin alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 3,100 people named Maylin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maylin most popular?
Maylin peaked in 2024, reaching #1193 nationally. Today it ranks #1673, 480 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Maylin
Meilin and Mei Lin are ordinary Chinese given names. Separately, American naming built -lin and -lyn compounds on many fronts from the 1940s. Maylin appears in the American registers from the 1990s and rose through the 2010s, carried by both traditions at once. It is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
beautiful forest; May and Lynn
Two routes. As a Chinese name, mei, 'beautiful', and lin, 'forest' — both ordinary characters. Or as an American compound of May, from the Roman goddess Maia, and the -lin ending from Lynn, itself the Welsh llyn, 'lake'. The two are unrelated.
Pronouncing Maylin
MAY-lin
Two syllables, stress on the first. Chinese Meilin gives both syllables an even weight with tones English does not carry.
Nicknames for Maylin
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
- 1974
- Most girls named
- 2024199 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1193reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −38.2%123 in 2025, from 199
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.
Maylin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- 美林 in Chinese — transliteration
- Maelyn in English — spelling variant
- Meilin in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Maylins among us
people named Maylin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 13,067 born in 2025 was named Maylin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Maylin
- #1673
- Maylin on the 2025 chart
- #761
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Maylin went to 123 girls in 2025, but Mailyn, 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 — 912 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 8,077 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 13,067 for Maylin 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 Season test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maylin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Season climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Season's path sketches the road Maylin is walking now.
Maylin 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 Maylin is headed
Maylin looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 46% 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.
Maylin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maylin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Chinese beautiful-forest reading is concrete and transparent.
- May and Lin are two short forms, both real names in their own right.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- The two origins are entirely unrelated and neither is dominant.
- Several spellings of the sound are in circulation.
- The Chinese tones are lost in English pronunciation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maylins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,100 people named Maylin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Maylin?
- Maylin is the most-used spelling in US records — 123 of the 199 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Mailyn, Maylynn, Maylyn and Mailynn.
- How popular is the name Maylin in 2025?
- Maylin ranks #1673 among US girl names in 2025, with 123 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maylin?
- About 1 in every 13,067 US girls born in 2025 was named Maylin — 123 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maylin with classmates?
- Maylin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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