Girl · Breton
Maëlle
Say it: mah-EL
Meaning
Feminine of the Breton Maël, from Old Breton mael 'prince, chief'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A Breton name that spread across France from the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 373 babies given this name since 2001
- At its height in 2010, about 1 in 34,800 girls
- 19 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Maelle
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Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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