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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Mai

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#3,016

up +245 places

2025 births

55

up +6 births

All-time births

5,677

1% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1990
254 births
Best rank
#792
in 1881
First recorded
1880
#804 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1989
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
121 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1990254#795Peak
  2. 1989239#798
  3. 1991221#891
  4. 1994213#903
  5. 1993202#935

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #792 in 1881 · peak births 254 in 1990

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

20 boys · 5,677 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Mai has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.