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Maymie

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Maymie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 599th, in 1885.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
191644 births
Best rank
#599in 1885
Since 1880
1,054people given the name
Babies named Maymie, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,054 girls have been named Maymie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 44 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 44 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1915, and the 1910s alone account for 26%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Maymie
1880s93
1890s136
1900s189
1910s269
1920s250
1930s95
1940s22

In 1916, its biggest year

Maymie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.

Names that rose and fell with Maymie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.