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Mayci vs Maynard

American parents have registered 14,940 Maynards since 1880, against 794 Maycis. But in 2025 it was Mayci that was commoner, 54 babies to 7.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mayci Maynard

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 143 years in which either name was published, Maynard for 121 years and Mayci for 22 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Mayci Maynard
Total US births 79414,940
Most in one year 55398
Babies in 2025 547
Estimated living today 7904,000
Median age today 1469
Peak year 20111922
Best rank 3,051st girls279th boys
Rank in 2025 3,028th9,714th
First recorded 19921880
Girls / boys 794 / 022 / 14,918

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 Maynards alive today are over 69; half the Maycis are over 14. That is 55 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Mayci Maynard
England and Wales 149

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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