Mayme
Mayme is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 127th, in 1885–1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1915291 births
- Best rank
- #127first in 1885
- Since 1880
- 10,928people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,928 girls have been named Mayme in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 291 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 291 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1909, and the 1910s alone account for 20%. It has spent 58 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mayme | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,841 | |
| 1890s | 2,098 | |
| 1900s | 1,589 | |
| 1910s | 2,208 | |
| 1920s | 1,672 | |
| 1930s | 641 | |
| 1940s | 303 | |
| 1950s | 157 | |
| 1960s | 103 | |
| 1970s | 76 | |
| 1980s | 74 | |
| 1990s | 45 | |
| 2000s | 45 | |
| 2010s | 47 | |
| 2020s | 29 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Mayme was the 348th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Mayme
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mathildapeak 1918
- Nellepeak 1917
- Mabellepeak 1893
- Augustapeak 1915
- Ettiepeak 1891
- Maypeak 1919
- Effiepeak 1919
- Bellpeak 1900
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.