Maryellen

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Maryellen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. Its best rank was 432nd, in 1944.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 170.00% of girls
Peak year: 1960471 births
Best rank: #432in 1944
Since 1891: 13,120people given the name

Babies named Maryellen, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

13,120 girls have been named Maryellen in the United States since 1891, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 471 births.

The name has all but left use: 17 births in 2024, against 471 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1960s alone account for 23%. It has spent 55 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Maryellen
1890s	27
1900s	47
1910s	343
1920s	809
1930s	940
1940s	2,463
1950s	2,859
1960s	2,969
1970s	986
1980s	648
1990s	390
2000s	296
2010s	231
2020s	112

In 1960, its biggest year

Maryellen was the 450th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1960 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1960.

Names that rose and fell with Maryellen

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.