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Maine vs Maite

American parents have registered 4,466 Maites since 1880, against 9 Maines. Maite is still ahead, with 193 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maine against Maite, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maine Maite

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

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Maite for 57 years and Maine for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Maine Maite
Total US births 94,466
Most in one year 9244
Babies in 2025 under 5193
Estimated living today 4,400
Median age today 12
Peak year 18982011
Best rank 1,171st girls1,022nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,192nd
First recorded 18981968
Girls / boys 9 / 04,466 / 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maine and Maite.