Mailee

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 16 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
16
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Mailee by the numbers

Mailee was given to 16 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 38 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Mailee

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Mailee. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Marleepleasant lake or fen clearing; a variant of Marley657 in the US (2017)
  • Mailegarland; wreath of flowers21 in the US (2017)
  • Maylee211 in the US (2017)
  • Maelee69 in the US (2017)
  • Mailen38 in the US (2017)
  • Maizee32 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Mailee

Names that are said the same way as Mailee, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Malleydescendant of Maolmhuaidh, Irish surname9 in the US (2017)
  • Mayleigh48 in the US (2017)
  • Mailey8 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Mayley9 in the US (2017)
  • Maley7 in the US (2017)
  • Malee5 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Mailee

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