Maëlle
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from Breton, equivalent to English Princess, from maelle (“princess”)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maëlle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 24K
- USUnited States1 in 885K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Maëlle itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 279 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Maelle in FR France, BE Belgium, BR Brazil and 1 more and Malle in US United States, SE Sweden.
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)
a female given name from Breton, equivalent to English Princess, from maelle (“princess”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maëlle 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 | #407 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 24K | Maelle | 279 |
| CM Cameroon | #860 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Maelle | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 50 | Maelle | 36 |
| BR Brazil | — | 379 | 1 in 559K | 379 | Maelle | 27 |
| US United States | — | 376 | 1 in 885K | 376 | Malle | 121 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 22 | Maëlle | 26 |
| SE Sweden | — | 65as Malle | 1 in 157K | 65 | Malle | 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Maëlle is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, D’origine hébraïque, « goutte de mer »; ou celtique, « princesse ».
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maëlle Rickerb. 1978CAsnowboarder
- Maelle Gavetb. 1978FRFrench businesswoman
- Maëlle Garbinob. 1996FRFrench association football player
- Maëlle Filoponb. 1997FRFrench rugby union player
- Maëlle Grossetêteb. 1998FRFrench racing cyclist
- Maëlle Lakrarb. 2000FRFrench association football player
- Maëlleb. 2001FRFrench singer
- Maëlle Dickhoffb. 2001LULuxembourgian female volleyball player
- Tyra Axnérb. 2002SEnot in their usual nameSwedish handball player
- Maëlle GenetFRactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 11K | #154 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 50 | #179 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 30 | #19,046 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maëlle mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Breton, equivalent to English Princess, from maelle (“princess”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Maëlle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Maëlle in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maelle.
- Is Maëlle a male or female name?
- Maëlle 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.
- What are other forms of the name Maëlle?
- In the etymology graph, Maëlys and Maela are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Maëlle?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 379 people named Maëlle in 2022, about 1 in 559 thousand residents.
- How common is Maëlle compared with other names?
- In France, Maëlle is the 407th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ma%C3%ABlleThe 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, “Maëlle” — the 407th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.