girls:
5 births since 2012
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
152 births since 1914
#4434 (3rd percentile)
overall:
157 births since 1914
#7582 (2nd percentile)
The name Mayes is the #7,582 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 157 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 2.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,434 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 152 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2012.
Mayes first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 2012 for girls). Birth data for Mayes is available in 18 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (18 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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.
The name Mayes has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mayes reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #890) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mayes ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 75.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mayes reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #937) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mayes".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Mayes is pronounced as mayz, which has 1 syllables.
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