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Maebell vs Maelyn

American parents have registered 2,490 Maelyns since 1880, against 823 Maebells. Maelyn is still ahead, with 180 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maebell against Maelyn, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maebell Maelyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 89 years in which either name was published, Maebell for 52 years and Maelyn for 37 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Maebell Maelyn
Total US births 8232,490
Most in one year 40201
Babies in 2025 under 5180
Estimated living today 802,500
Median age today 837
Peak year 19202024
Best rank 1,206th girls1,188th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,248th
First recorded 18911982
Girls / boys 823 / 02,490 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Maebells alive today are over 83; half the Maelyns are over 7. That is 76 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maebell and Maelyn.