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Maybelle vs Mayo

American parents have registered 6,366 Maybelles since 1880, against 1,492 Mayos. Maybelle is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maybelle against Mayo, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maybelle Mayo

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 134 years in which either name was published, Maybelle for 104 years and Mayo for 30 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Maybelle Mayo
Total US births 6,3661,492
Most in one year 21254
Babies in 2025 60under 5
Estimated living today 1,100400
Median age today 2166
Peak year 19181915
Best rank 459th girls980th boys
Rank in 2025 2,822ndunranked
First recorded 18801893
Girls / boys 6,366 / 0256 / 1,236

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Mayos alive today are over 66; half the Maybelles are over 21. That is 45 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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