Maëlys
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from Breton
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maelis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maëlys is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- MQMartinique≈1 in 14K
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 16K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 230 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, 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 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)
a female given name from Breton
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maëlys 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 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 28K | Maelys | 230 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Maelys | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 33 | Maelys | 22 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Maelys | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 50 | 1 in 1M | 50 | Maelys | 8 |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 5 | — | 7 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 10 | — | 3 |
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 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maëlys Ricordeaub. 1980FRFrench actress
- Maëlys Martinetb. 1999FRFrench basketball player (born 1999)
- Maelys Bougratb. 2002FRFrench tennis player
- Maëlys de Araujob. 2008FRgirl murdered in 2017
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).
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 15 countries.
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
- Is Maëlys a male or female name?
- Maëlys 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 does the name Maëlys mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Breton Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Maëlys?
- In the etymology graph, Maëlle and Maela are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Maëlys?
- A machine transcription gives /maelis/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Maëlys have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Maëlys in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maelys.
- How common is the name Maëlys?
- In Spain, the national register counted 50 people named Maëlys, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Maëlys compared with other names?
- In France, Maëlys is the 453rd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maëlys?
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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%ABlysThe 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, “Maëlys” — the 453rd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.