Maylee

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 211 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
211
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#3035
8 babies

Maylee by the numbers

In 2025, 8 babies in England and Wales were named Maylee. In the US, 211 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 268 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Maylee

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 Maylee. 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)
  • Maycee99 in the US (2017)
  • Mylee89 in the US (2017)
  • Maelee69 in the US (2017)
  • Mayleen33 in the US (2017)
  • Maylen31 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Maylee

Names that are said the same way as Maylee, 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)
  • Mailee16 in the US (2017)
  • Mayley9 in the US (2017)
  • Maley7 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Maylee

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