Mai-Ling
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mai-Ling is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: near Lancaster and near Liverpool. Both are probably so called from the OE tribal name Me(a)llingas ‘people of Melvin i. Scots: var. of Melville i. 2. Scots: Anglicized form of Gael.
- USUnited States≈1 in 7.2M(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 467K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 850K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 467K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mailing in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada.
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)
near Lancaster and near Liverpool. Both are probably so called from the OE tribal name Me(a)llingas ‘people of Melvin i. Scots: var. of Melville i. 2. Scots: Anglicized form of Gael. Mac Gille Bheathain; see McIlwaine. 3. Irish: Anglicized form of Gael. O Maoil Mhin ‘descend¬ ant of the devotee of (St) Min’, a personal name derived from min soft, gentle. Vars. (of 3): O’Mullwine, Mul(l)veen, Mulvin. Molvin. Memoii see William Memory see Mowbray
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mai-Ling 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 7.2M | 5 | Mailing | 43 |
| CL Chile | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 467K | 1 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Mailing | 25 |
| CA Canada | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Mailing | 19 |
| CR Costa Rica | 6 | 1 in 850K | 6 | — | — |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2010 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2007 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2000 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1997 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1993 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1982 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1978 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1977 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1975 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1974 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1971 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1968 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mai-Ling mean, and where does it come from?
- near Lancaster and near Liverpool. Both are probably so called from the OE tribal name Me(a)llingas ‘people of Melvin i. Scots: var. of Melville i. 2. Scots: Anglicized form of Gael. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- Is Mai-Ling a male or female name?
- Mai-Ling is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mai-Ling have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 people named Mai-Ling in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mailing.
- How common is the name Mai-Ling?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 6 people named Mai-Ling, about 1 in 850 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mai-lingThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mai-Ling”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.