Maélys
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Modern Breton/French name, from Breton mael 'prince, chief' plus -ys ending
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: INSEE, 2021
Maélys is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- MQMartinique≈1 in 5.1K
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 9.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 230 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Maelys in FR France, BE Belgium, ES Spain and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Modern Breton/French name, from Breton mael 'prince, chief' plus -ys ending.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maélys counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #453 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 28K | Maelys | 230 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 33 | Maelys | 22 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Maelys | 3 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Maelys | 3 |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 5 | — | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 50 | 1 in 1M | 50 | Maelys | 8 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 10 | — | 3 |
| RE Réunion | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 15 | — | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Maélys is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Prénom composé; origine celtique, signifie « princesse ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Nom breton moderne, souvent rattaché à Maël/Maela; étymologie celtique.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2021 | 580 | #2,303 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2013 | 6 | #1,261 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2012 | 6 | #1,317 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2007 | 6 | #1,207 |
| MQ Martinique | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) | 2014 | 5 | #86 |
| RE Réunion | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) | 2013 | 5 | #353 |
| RE Réunion | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) | 2012 | 5 | #383 |
| MQ Martinique | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) | 2011 | 5 | #98 |
| RE Réunion | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) | 2011 | 5 | #386 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2011 | 5 | #1,464 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2010 | 5 | #1,502 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2009 | 5 | #1,458 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maélys mean, and where does it come from?
- Modern Breton/French name, from Breton mael 'prince, chief' plus -ys ending. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Maélys a male or female name?
- Maélys is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2021).
- In which country does Maélys have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Maélys in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maelys.
- How common is the name Maélys?
- In Spain, the national register counted 50 people named Maélys, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Maélys compared with other names?
- In France, Maélys is the 453rd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ma%C3%A9lysThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maélys” — the 453rd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.