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Maynor vs Mayra

American parents have registered 33,561 Mayras since 1880, against 1,076 Maynors. Mayra is still ahead, with 86 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maynor against Mayra, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maynor Mayra

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 79 years in which either name was published, Mayra for 78 years and Maynor for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Maynor Mayra
Total US births 1,07633,561
Most in one year 561,548
Babies in 2025 4186
Estimated living today 1,10033,000
Median age today 1534
Peak year 20221987
Best rank 2,468th boys182nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,991st2,153rd
First recorded 19261948
Girls / boys 0 / 1,07633,217 / 344

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 Mayras alive today are over 34; half the Maynors are over 15. That is 19 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: Maynor and Mayra.