Maylene
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 31 babies a year in the US.
Maylene by the numbers
Maylene was given to 31 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 41 babies in 2012, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Maylene
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 Maylene. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Maylene
Names that are said the same way as Maylene, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Maylene
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