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Maylen

Girl · MAY-len · Modern

Maylen is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).

Where does Maylen come from?

Modern: blend of May and -len, like Maylin

Say it
MAY-len

Is Maylen a girl's or a boy's name?

Maylen is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls and 7 boys in the US.

How popular is Maylen in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,858among girls
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 150,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 30% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Maylen, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,221st. Its busiest year was 2012, with 76 girls. It first appears in the records in 1989. 7 boys were also named Maylen in 2025 (9,710th for boys).

2025 had fewer girls named Maylen than any year since 2004.

Half of all the girls named Maylen in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 644 girls in the US were given Maylen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #493, up from #8,858 for this spelling alone.

1989Busiest: 76 in 20122025
Maylen in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202511#8,858
202437#3,962
202351#3,181
202232#4,376
202136#4,011
202048#3,221
201949#3,221
201845#3,437
201731#4,475
201628#4,849
201545#3,478
201458#2,920
201350#3,217
201276#2,426
201131#4,567
201030#4,734
200928#5,096
200822#6,127
200715#8,094
200625#5,382
200516#7,133
200411#9,259
200311#9,043
200213#7,810
200111#8,751
20000–
19990–
19988#10,116
19975#13,719
19960–
19956#11,778
19945#13,423
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19896#10,841

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Names like Maylen

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