In 2025, 193 US girls were named Maite, making it the 1,195th most common girls’ name of the year, down 152 places from #1,043 in 2024. That is 48 fewer than the 241 girls named Maite in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,024, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 244. For comparison, it was #1,323 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maite in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 12 babies. In all, 4,466 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,811 babies named Maite.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,717 US girls were named Maite; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 241. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,328 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maite ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #297 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mayte (3,503 babies since 1880) and Matt (23,892 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maythe, Mahith and Maithe are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Basque. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.