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Maelynn vs Maevery

American parents have registered 2,916 Maelynns since 1880, against 158 Maeverys. Maelynn is still ahead, with 234 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maelynn against Maevery, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maelynn Maevery

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

Maelynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1966 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Maelynn had 150 and Maevery had 21.

Side by side

  Maelynn Maevery
Total US births 2,916158
Most in one year 26129
Babies in 2025 23414
Estimated living today 2,900160
Median age today 63
Peak year 20242023
Best rank 990th girls4,655th girls
Rank in 2025 1,053rd7,491st
First recorded 19662018
Girls / boys 2,916 / 0158 / 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 Maelynns alive today are over 6; half the Maeverys are over 3. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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