Maylynn
Feminine · “the month of May”
Maylynn joins a month to a suffix. May is genuinely old: the month is named for a Roman goddess and the name has been given to English girls since the nineteenth century. The -lynn on the end is twentieth-century American and has stopped meaning anything at all.
How old is the name Maylynn?
Maylynn first appears in US birth records in 1964 — 61 years ago. The typical Maylynn is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Maylynn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maylynn most popular?
Maylynn peaked in 2024, reaching #4039 nationally. Today it ranks #5099, 1,060 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 Maylynn
American naming has spent eighty years attaching -lynn to things, and what is worth noticing is what it attaches to: almost always something already loved. May was ordinary in the nineteenth century, both as a month name and as everybody's short form for Mary. Adding the suffix keeps the affection and makes the name new, which is exactly what a family wants when a grandmother's name feels too plain to give outright. It is a compound with a real first half and a fashionable second, and it is honest about which is which.
Meaningscholars disagree
the month of May; from the goddess Maia
The month is named for Maia, a Roman goddess of growth, and May has been used as a name from it and as a pet form of Mary and Margaret. The -lynn ending began as Lynn, an English surname from a Welsh word for a lake, and had become a bare suffix by the nineteen-sixties.
Pronouncing Maylynn
MAY-lin
Two syllables, stress in front. The second is light and often flattens to -lun.
Nicknames for Maylynn
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
- 1964
- Most girls named
- 202436 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4039reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −30.6%25 in 2025, from 36
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.
Maylynn in other languages
Maylynns among us
people named Maylynn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was named Maylynn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Maylynn
- #5099
- Maylynn on the 2025 chart
- #761
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Maylynn went to 25 girls in 2025, but Maylin, Mailyn 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 — 4,338 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 8,077 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 64,291 for Maylynn 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 Korri test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maylynn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Korri climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Korri's path sketches the road Maylynn is walking now.
Maylynn 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 Maylynn is headed
Maylynn looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 20% 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.
Maylynn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maylynn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- May and Lynn both work as short forms and both are complete names.
- Every sound in it is ordinary English, so nobody stumbles.
- The first half carries a month and a Roman goddess, which is a real inheritance.
- Maylynn, Maelyn and Maylin are all in use and near-identical in speech.
- The -lynn ending places the name in a particular stretch of decades.
- Only half of it has a documented history, which is worth saying plainly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maylynns 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 Maylynn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Maylynn?
- Maylynn is one of 5 recorded spellings. Maylin is the more common one — 123 births in 2025 against 25 for Maylynn.
- How popular is the name Maylynn in 2025?
- Maylynn ranks #5099 among US girl names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maylynn?
- About 1 in every 64,291 US girls born in 2025 was named Maylynn — 25 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maylynn with classmates?
- Maylynn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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