Maye
Maye is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 511th, in 1903.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192158 births
- Best rank
- #511in 1903
- Since 1880
- 1,947people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,947 girls have been named Maye in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 58 births.
The name has all but left use: 11 births in 2024, against 58 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1916, and the 1910s alone account for 22%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Maye | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 137 | |
| 1890s | 238 | |
| 1900s | 304 | |
| 1910s | 424 | |
| 1920s | 341 | |
| 1930s | 176 | |
| 1940s | 128 | |
| 1950s | 41 | |
| 1960s | 12 | |
| 1970s | 5 | |
| 1990s | 10 | |
| 2000s | 29 | |
| 2010s | 55 | |
| 2020s | 47 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Maye was the 982nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Maye
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ludiepeak 1916
- Gussiepeak 1918
- Pearlpeak 1918
- Myrtlepeak 1918
- Blanchpeak 1924
- Zulapeak 1922
- Hassiepeak 1919
- Valliepeak 1915
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.