girls:
1.2k births since 1918
#4565 (20th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1918
#6589 (15th percentile)
The name Maylene is the #6,589 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,151 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 14.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,565 (20.1% percentile) for all time with 1,151 births since 1918.
Maylene first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (first recorded for girls in 1918). Birth data for Maylene is available in 91 out of the 106 years between 1918 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, Maylene reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #901) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Maylene ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 40.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maylene".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Maylene. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.5% confident that Maylene is pronounced as MAY-leen, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is may-LEEN, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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