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Mayra vs Mayrin

American parents have registered 33,561 Mayras since 1880, against 1,124 Mayrins. Mayra is still ahead, with 86 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mayra Mayrin

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

Mayra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1948 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Mayra had 207 and Mayrin had 82.

Side by side

  Mayra Mayrin
Total US births 33,5611,124
Most in one year 1,548147
Babies in 2025 868
Estimated living today 33,0001,100
Median age today 3415
Peak year 19872008
Best rank 182nd girls1,562nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,153rd10,917th
First recorded 19481999
Girls / boys 33,217 / 3441,124 / 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 Mayras alive today are over 34; half the Mayrins 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: Mayra and Mayrin.