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Mailyn vs Maison

American parents have registered 5,390 Maisons since 1880, against 936 Mailyns. Maison is still ahead, with 174 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mailyn against Maison, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mailyn Maison

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 44 years in which either name was published, Maison for 38 years and Mailyn for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Mailyn Maison
Total US births 9365,390
Most in one year 57325
Babies in 2025 31174
Estimated living today 9305,300
Median age today 1211
Peak year 20232016
Best rank 2,936th girls782nd boys
Rank in 2025 4,460th1,290th
First recorded 19781988
Girls / boys 936 / 0815 / 4,575

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.

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: Mailyn and Maison.