Maybelline vs Mayme
American parents have registered 10,928 Maymes since 1880, against 624 Maybellines. But in 2025 it was Maybelline that was commoner, 8 babies to fewer than five.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Maybelline Mayme
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 144 years in which either name was published, Mayme for 112 years and Maybelline for 32 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.
- 1880–1954 Mayme ahead
- 1955–1956 Maybelline ahead
- 1957–1970 Mayme ahead
- 1971 Maybelline ahead
- 1972–1989 Mayme ahead
- 1990–1992 Maybelline ahead
- 1993–1995 Mayme ahead
- 1996–1998 Maybelline ahead
- 1999–2001 Mayme ahead
- 2002–2025 Maybelline ahead
Side by side
| Maybelline | Mayme | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 624 | 10,928 |
| Most in one year | 26 | 291 |
| Babies in 2025 | 8 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 570 | 870 |
| Median age today | 14 | 69 |
| Peak year | 2011 | 1915 |
| Best rank | 5,207th girls | 348th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 10,917th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1925 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 624 / 0 | 10,928 / 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 Maymes alive today are over 69; half the Maybellines are over 14. That is 55 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Maybelline Texas (5.7×), California (5.5×)
- Mayme Kentucky (11.5×), Tennessee (4.3×), Oklahoma (4.1×)
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: Maybelline and Mayme.