Maylee Girl
How popular is Maylee?
#1,022 girl name in 2025
245 baby girls were named Maylee in the US in 2025, making it the 1022nd most popular girl name.
Maylee popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,022 for girls (▼ 4 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 245 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+4% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,095 in 2015, #1,084 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2016 (268 girls) |
| Highest rank | #989 in 2016 |
| First recorded | 1969 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Maylee counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Maylee family of names ranked #448 for girls in 2025 (#469 the year before), with 659 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Maylee | 245 | 37% |
| Mayleigh | 75 | 11% |
| Mali | 37 | 6% |
| Mallie | 54 | 8% |
| Maylie | 57 | 9% |
| Mayli | 50 | 8% |
| Maily | 38 | 6% |
| Mailey | 19 | 3% |
| Mailee | 15 | 2% |
| Malie | 10 | 2% |
| Mayley | 12 | 2% |
| Maleigh | 5 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Maylee is most popular
Babies named Maylee per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Kentucky: 0.7 per 1,000 (63 girls)
- Utah: 0.6 per 1,000 (49 girls)
- West Virginia: 0.5 per 1,000 (14 girls)
- Arkansas: 0.5 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- Oklahoma: 0.5 per 1,000 (34 girls)
Maylee by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,469 |
| 1970s | 17 | #7,294 |
| 1980s | 39 | #6,952 |
| 1990s | 127 | #2,700 |
| 2000s | 777 | #1,237 |
| 2010s | 2,196 | #989 |
| 2020s | 1,435 | #1,012 |
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Questions
- Is Maylee a boy or girl name?
- Maylee is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Maylee were girls.
- How popular is the name Maylee?
- 245 baby girls were named Maylee in the US in 2025, making it the 1022nd most popular girl name.
- When was Maylee most popular?
- Maylee peaked in 2016, when 268 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #989 in 2016.
- How many people are named Maylee?
- 4,596 babies have been named Maylee in the US since 1880. We estimate about 4,569 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Maylee most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Maylee was most common in Kentucky, at 0.7 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.