Meylin
Feminine
Meylin is a Spanish-language name joining Mei to a -lin ending, and Chinese mei — beautiful — stands behind the opening.
How old is the name Meylin?
Meylin first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Meylin is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Meylin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Meylin most popular?
Meylin peaked in 2024, reaching #3516 nationally. Today it ranks #4460, 944 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 Meylin
Ours, offered as ours. Central American naming has produced a family of names ending in -lin and -lyn that are borrowed from English endings and spelled by Spanish rules — Meylin, Yeimy, Naydelin, Jeilin. They look Chinese or English to outsiders and read as entirely Honduran or Salvadoran at home. Chinese mei, beautiful, is a coincidence of sound that the spelling makes look deliberate, and it is worth naming without claiming.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established. Chinese mei means beautiful and opens Meiling and Meihua. The Mey- and -lin pieces of Latin American naming, which produced Meylin, Yeylin and Marlin, are the likelier source.
Pronouncing Meylin
MAY-leen
Two syllables; Spanish stresses the second, may-LEEN.
Nicknames for Meylin
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
- 1989
- Most girls named
- 202444 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3516reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −29.5%31 in 2025, from 44
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.
Meylin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Meylin in Spanish — same name
- Mei in Chinese — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, North Carolina, Florida.
Meylins among us
people named Meylin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 51,847 born in 2025 was named Meylin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Meylin
- #4460
- Meylin on the 2025 chart
- #891
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Meylin went to 31 girls in 2025, but Meilin, Meilyn and Meilynn are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 69, which makes it the 891st most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,569 places above the chart.
- Meylin31
- Meilin19
- Meilyn10
- Meilynn9
About 1 girl in 23,294 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 51,847 for Meylin 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 Amarilis test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Meylin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Amarilis climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Amarilis's path sketches the road Meylin is walking now.
Meylin 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 Meylin is headed
Meylin looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 42% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. 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.
Meylin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Meylin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Lin is a complete short form in its own right.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at first sight.
- It belongs clearly to a living Central American naming tradition.
- The stress differs between the Spanish and American readings.
- Meylin, Meilyn and Maylin are all in use and none is dominant.
- There is no documented meaning.
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Frequently asked
- How many Meylins 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 Meylin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Meylin?
- Meylin is the most-used spelling in US records — 31 of the 69 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Meilin, Meilyn and Meilynn.
- How popular is the name Meylin in 2025?
- Meylin ranks #4460 among US girl names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Meylin?
- About 1 in every 51,847 US girls born in 2025 was named Meylin — 31 in all.
- Will my child share the name Meylin with classmates?
- Meylin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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