girls:
100 births since 2007
#5616 (2nd percentile)
overall:
100 births since 2007
#7639 (1st percentile)
The name Mayella is the #7,639 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 100 recorded births since 2007. This represents the 1.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,616 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 100 births since 2007.
Mayella first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2007 (first recorded for girls in 2007). Birth data for Mayella is available in 12 out of the 17 years between 2007 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Mayella reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #938) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mayella is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #941 (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mayella".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Mayella. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.5% confident that Mayella is pronounced as may-EH-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-YEH-luh, at 11.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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