Maylene
Maylene is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 250.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 201241 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1918
- 1,176people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,176 girls have been named Maylene in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 41 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2010s alone account for 25%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Maylene | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 41 | |
| 1930s | 48 | |
| 1940s | 75 | |
| 1950s | 61 | |
| 1960s | 68 | |
| 1970s | 59 | |
| 1980s | 94 | |
| 1990s | 94 | |
| 2000s | 228 | |
| 2010s | 299 | |
| 2020s | 104 |
In 2012, its biggest year
Maylene was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2012 were Sophia, Emma, Isabella, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Maylene
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laelpeak 2015
- Alonapeak 1985
- Arlynpeak 2007
- Annaleepeak 2016
- Marispeak 2018
- Belenpeak 2024
- Karolinepeak 2017
- Karmenpeak 2008
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.