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Maven: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 133 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,436 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,436 in 2023; #1,584 in 2025. About 81% of babies named Maven in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,584 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,436.
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Maven: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 133 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,436 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 156 (2023).
In 2025, 133 US girls were named Maven, making it the 1,584th most common girls’ name of the year, down 45 places from #1,539 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 139 girls named Maven in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,436, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 156. For comparison, it was #3,574 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 32 US boys were named Maven, making it the 3,564th most common boys’ name of the year, down 309 places from #3,255 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 37 boys named Maven in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,720, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 48. For comparison, it was #6,192 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maven in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 5 babies. In all, 1,795 US babies have been given the name, 71% of them girls and 29% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 935 babies named Maven.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,052 US girls were named Maven; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 156. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,085 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maven ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #707 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Maevyn, Maeven and Mayven are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maevyn (445), Maeven (386), Mayven (239), Mavin (153), Maiven (56), Mavyn (53), Mahveen (52), Maevin (5).
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 Maven 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 8 | #707 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #760 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #789 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #827 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,149 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,383 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,541 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,552 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,594 | #2,784 |
| California | 8 | #2,413 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 133 | #1,584 | 32 | #3,564 |
| 2024 | 139 | #1,539 | 37 | #3,255 |
| 2023 | 156 | #1,436 | 48 | #2,720 |
| 2022 | 116 | #1,778 | 29 | #3,835 |
| 2021 | 103 | #1,923 | 33 | #3,465 |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,043 | 18 | #5,163 |
| 2019 | 91 | #2,087 | 16 | #5,721 |
| 2018 | 82 | #2,249 | 19 | #5,039 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,501 | 28 | #3,856 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,584 | 24 | #4,272 |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,574 | 14 | #6,192 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,706 | 20 | #4,807 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,824 | 14 | #6,130 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,833 | 18 | #5,179 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,064 | 12 | #6,865 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,057 | 16 | #5,645 |
| 2009 | — | — | 17 | #5,472 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,847 | 15 | #5,965 |
| 2007 | — | — | 10 | #7,978 |
| 2006 | — | — | 14 | #5,993 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,767 | 10 | #7,481 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,351 | 5 | #12,560 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,186 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,189 | 24 | #3,630 |
| 2001 | — | — | 24 | #3,582 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,666 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,707 | — | — |
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).