Mayerly

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Mayerly by the numbers

Mayerly was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 28 babies in 2002, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Mayerly

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 Mayerly. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Mayely5 in the US (2017)
  • Marelypleasant lake or fen clearing; a form of Marley50 in the US (2017)
  • Marlypleasant lake or fen clearing; a variant of Marley44 in the US (2017)
  • Merlyvariant of Merle; blackbird or dark5 in the US (2017)
  • Mayeli53 in the US (2017)
  • Maely19 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Mayerly

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

  • Marlie63 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Marli103 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Mayerly

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