Maela Girl
How popular is Maela?
#3,028 girl name in 2025
54 baby girls were named Maela in the US in 2025, making it the 3028th most popular girl name.
Maela popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,028 for girls (▼ 495 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 54 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+238% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #7,263 in 2015, #4,878 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2024 (70 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,533 in 2024 |
| First recorded | 2002 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Maela counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Maela family of names ranked #1,922 for girls in 2025 (#1,890 the year before), with 72 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Maela | 54 | 75% |
| Maella | 8 | 11% |
| Maelah | 10 | 14% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Maela is most popular
Babies named Maela per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Ohio: 0.0 per 1,000 (7 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Florida: 0.0 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- New York: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Maela by decade
Girl names about as popular as Maela
Questions
- Is Maela a boy or girl name?
- Maela is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Maela were girls.
- How popular is the name Maela?
- 54 baby girls were named Maela in the US in 2025, making it the 3028th most popular girl name.
- When was Maela most popular?
- Maela peaked in 2024, when 70 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,533 in 2024.
- How many people are named Maela?
- 445 babies have been named Maela in the US since 1880. We estimate about 443 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 5.
- Where is Maela most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Maela was most common in Ohio, at 0.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.