# Maile (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/maile/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hawaiian |
| Meaning | “maile”, “a flowering hawaiian vine” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,680 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 3,680 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 21, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Hawaiian Maile, from maile (“maile, a flowering Hawaiian vine”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 63 | 2,788 |
| 2012 | 58 | 2,961 |
| 2013 | 47 | 3,391 |
| 2014 | 40 | 3,823 |
| 2015 | 26 | 5,236 |
| 2016 | 23 | 5,731 |
| 2017 | 21 | 5,959 |
| 2018 | 29 | 4,732 |
| 2019 | 24 | 5,402 |
| 2020 | 23 | 5,422 |
| 2021 | 31 | 4,469 |
| 2022 | 22 | 5,745 |
| 2023 | 30 | 4,622 |
| 2024 | 30 | 4,626 |
| 2025 | 33 | 4,316 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5,061 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |

## People named Maile

- Maile Flanagan, American actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.