Mayrin
Feminine
Mexican television names children. A telenovela runs six nights a week for months in front of an audience that includes most of a country, and the names in it turn up in birth records the following year — in Mexico and, a season later, in Texas and California.
How old is the name Mayrin?
Mayrin first appears in US birth records in 1999 — 26 years ago. The typical Mayrin alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,100 people named Mayrin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mayrin most popular?
Mayrin peaked in 2008, reaching #1562 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 9,355 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Mayrin
Naming in Mexico and in Mexican-American communities tracks television closely, and it has done so since the 1970s. A leading actress with an unusual name puts that name into circulation for as long as her career runs, which is why a run of Spanish-language women's names in American records can be dated to particular series rather than to any migration or fashion. Mayrin belongs to that pattern: it appears in American figures at the end of the 1990s and rises through the 2000s, the years a Mexican actress of that name was working steadily. The spelling itself is straightforwardly Spanish, with the y doing consonant work between two vowels.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No settled source. Mayrin is closest to Spanish Maria and its derivatives, and is spelled in American records as it is said. There is also an Irish name, Mairin, which is a diminutive of Maire, meaning little Mary; it is spelled and said differently and there is no evidence the two are connected.
Pronouncing Mayrin
MY-reen
Two syllables, stress on the first in Spanish. English speakers usually say MAY-rin, with the ay of day and a reduced ending. Both are in real American use and neither is a mistake.
Nicknames for Mayrin
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
- 2008147 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1562reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −33.3%8 in 2025, from 12
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.
Mayrin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mayrin in Spanish — same name
- Mairin in Irish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Mayrins among us
people named Mayrin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Mayrin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mayrin
- #10917
- Mayrin on the 2025 chart
- #941
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mayrin went to 8 girls in 2025, but Mairin is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 19, which makes it the 941st most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,976 places above the chart.
- Mairin11
- Mayrin8
About 1 girl in 84,593 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Mayrin 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 Farren test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mayrin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Farren climbed just as high around 1986, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Farren's path sketches the road Mayrin is walking now.
Mayrin 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
Mayrin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mayrin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Six letters and two syllables, with a spelling that is regular in Spanish.
- Three short forms, two of which are names in their own right elsewhere.
- It is uncommon without containing a single difficult sound.
- English and Spanish speakers say the first syllable differently, so it will be said two ways.
- Mayrin, Maerin and Mairin all exist and none is standard in America.
- No documented meaning attaches to it, which is worth settling before a child asks.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mayrins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Mayrin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mayrin?
- Mayrin is one of 2 recorded spellings. Mairin is the more common one — 11 births in 2025 against 8 for Mayrin.
- How popular is the name Mayrin in 2025?
- Mayrin ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mayrin?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Mayrin — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mayrin with classmates?
- Mayrin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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