Meaning not yet researched.
Maeve: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,153 in 2025. Its best rank was #73 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #73 in 2023; #76 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maeve in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#76 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #73.
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Maeve: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,153 girls in 2025. Peak: #73 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 3,153 (2025).
In 2025, 3,153 US girls were named Maeve, making it the 76th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1 place from #75 in 2024. That is 48 more than the 3,105 girls named Maeve in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #73, reached in 2023. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,153, in 2025. For comparison, it was #452 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maeve in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1940 with 8 babies. In all, 29,608 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 15,893 babies named Maeve.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 19,856 US girls were named Maeve; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 3,153. In 2025 that was about 1 in 510 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maeve ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #4 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 29 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Maeva (1,416 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mayve, Maive and Mav are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Irish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mayve (132), Maive (98), Mav (67), Mave (54), Maev (30), Mauve (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Maeve in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 56 | #4 | #158 |
| Rhode Island | 28 | #12 | #134 |
| Massachusetts | 169 | #15 | #77 |
| Vermont | 15 | #16 | — |
| Maine | 31 | #18 | #116 |
| Connecticut | 70 | #29 | #133 |
| Colorado | 99 | #35 | #375 |
| Pennsylvania | 192 | #35 | #221 |
| Wisconsin | 87 | #37 | #384 |
| Illinois | 169 | #39 | #240 |
| Nebraska | 35 | #39 | #397 |
| Montana | 16 | #43 | — |
| Ohio | 163 | #46 | #395 |
| District of Columbia | 13 | #48 | #123 |
| Minnesota | 80 | #48 | #251 |
| Oregon | 48 | #54 | #365 |
| New York | 226 | #56 | #264 |
| Washington | 92 | #57 | #482 |
| Utah | 60 | #61 | — |
| New Jersey | 110 | #61 | #303 |
| Kansas | 40 | #64 | — |
| Michigan | 99 | #67 | #474 |
| Virginia | 86 | #71 | #407 |
| Iowa | 38 | #72 | #450 |
| Hawaii | 9 | #87 | — |
| South Dakota | 11 | #90 | — |
| Idaho | 22 | #92 | — |
| Arizona | 63 | #94 | #819 |
| Maryland | 45 | #99 | #554 |
| Indiana | 63 | #103 | #395 |
| Missouri | 54 | #110 | #593 |
| North Dakota | 9 | #111 | — |
| Arkansas | 25 | #116 | — |
| South Carolina | 35 | #127 | #634 |
| North Carolina | 76 | #131 | #800 |
| Delaware | 7 | #133 | — |
| California | 212 | #144 | #756 |
| West Virginia | 11 | #147 | — |
| Florida | 100 | #178 | #1,768 |
| Tennessee | 43 | #178 | — |
| Oklahoma | 22 | #180 | — |
| Georgia | 57 | #183 | #1,026 |
| Texas | 169 | #198 | #1,107 |
| New Mexico | 8 | #204 | #442 |
| Nevada | 13 | #208 | — |
| Kentucky | 19 | #241 | #821 |
| Louisiana | 18 | #248 | #852 |
| Alabama | 19 | #260 | — |
| Mississippi | 10 | #287 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,153 | #76 | — | — |
| 2024 | 3,105 | #75 | — | — |
| 2023 | 3,062 | #73 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,676 | #103 | — | — |
| 2021 | 2,253 | #124 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,644 | #174 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,303 | #244 | — | — |
| 2018 | 973 | #334 | — | — |
| 2017 | 867 | #360 | — | — |
| 2016 | 820 | #406 | — | — |
| 2015 | 703 | #452 | — | — |
| 2014 | 648 | #487 | — | — |
| 2013 | 625 | #485 | — | — |
| 2012 | 571 | #532 | — | — |
| 2011 | 489 | #591 | — | — |
| 2010 | 546 | #536 | — | — |
| 2009 | 508 | #594 | — | — |
| 2008 | 486 | #636 | — | — |
| 2007 | 480 | #622 | — | — |
| 2006 | 447 | #647 | — | — |
| 2005 | 398 | #696 | — | — |
| 2004 | 378 | #710 | — | — |
| 2003 | 413 | #644 | — | — |
| 2002 | 350 | #710 | — | — |
| 2001 | 317 | #757 | — | — |
| 2000 | 295 | #778 | — | — |
| 1999 | 343 | #669 | — | — |
| 1998 | 240 | #881 | — | — |
| 1997 | 207 | #955 | — | — |
| 1996 | 141 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1995 | 133 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1994 | 102 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 1993 | 90 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1992 | 79 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 1991 | 67 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,292 | — | — |
| 1988 | 56 | #2,083 | — | — |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,512 | — | — |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,904 | — | — |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,968 | — | — |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,499 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,114 | — | — |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,807 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,422 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,284 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,084 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,395 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,370 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,631 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,599 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,419 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,743 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,342 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,326 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,700 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,489 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,588 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,101 | — | — |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,012 | — | — |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,273 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,166 | — | — |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,914 | — | — |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,946 | — | — |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,852 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,674 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,521 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,014 | — | — |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,614 | — | — |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,110 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,341 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,649 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,103 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,601 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,337 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,994 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,495 | — | — |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,967 | — | — |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,399 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).