Meaning not yet researched.
Maverick: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5,894 in 2025. Its best rank was #36 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #36 in 2024; #49 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Maverick in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#49 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #36.
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Maverick: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5,894 boys in 2025. Peak: #36 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 7,049 (2022).
In 2025, 5,894 US boys were named Maverick, making it the 49th most common boys’ name of the year, down 13 places from #36 in 2024. That is 741 fewer than the 6,635 boys named Maverick in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #36, reached in 2024. The most boys given the name in a single year was 7,049, in 2022. For comparison, it was #184 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maverick in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 33 babies. In all, 71,375 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 39,811 babies named Maverick.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 57,815 US boys were named Maverick; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 7,049. In 2025 that was about 1 in 290 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maverick ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #10 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 48 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Maverik (1,232 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maveric, Maveryk and Maveryck are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maveric (539), Maveryk (237), Maveryck (201), Maverek (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 Maverick in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 38 | #10 | #97 |
| Indiana | 192 | #12 | #133 |
| West Virginia | 55 | #13 | #170 |
| Montana | 35 | #14 | #70 |
| Alaska | 24 | #16 | #187 |
| Missouri | 174 | #17 | #131 |
| Kentucky | 141 | #18 | #179 |
| Utah | 125 | #19 | #135 |
| Oklahoma | 105 | #21 | #97 |
| Arkansas | 75 | #22 | #136 |
| Idaho | 55 | #23 | #213 |
| Minnesota | 133 | #25 | #111 |
| Wisconsin | 128 | #25 | #137 |
| Tennessee | 198 | #25 | #175 |
| North Dakota | 24 | #29 | #194 |
| Mississippi | 55 | #29 | #213 |
| New Hampshire | 35 | #30 | #163 |
| Nebraska | 52 | #30 | #136 |
| Oregon | 84 | #30 | #126 |
| Hawaii | 20 | #33 | #75 |
| Iowa | 72 | #33 | #93 |
| Kansas | 74 | #35 | #122 |
| Ohio | 248 | #35 | #148 |
| Wyoming | 11 | #36 | — |
| Alabama | 98 | #36 | #321 |
| Michigan | 180 | #40 | #151 |
| Florida | 405 | #41 | #183 |
| Louisiana | 78 | #43 | #161 |
| Pennsylvania | 244 | #44 | #213 |
| Georgia | 189 | #46 | #214 |
| North Carolina | 204 | #47 | #186 |
| Nevada | 51 | #49 | #150 |
| Arizona | 126 | #51 | #221 |
| Maine | 20 | #53 | #153 |
| South Carolina | 81 | #53 | #216 |
| Washington | 122 | #54 | #141 |
| Illinois | 165 | #61 | #209 |
| New Mexico | 27 | #65 | #253 |
| Virginia | 129 | #66 | #221 |
| Delaware | 15 | #67 | — |
| Texas | 544 | #71 | #222 |
| Colorado | 80 | #83 | #171 |
| California | 450 | #83 | #158 |
| Maryland | 63 | #83 | #262 |
| Connecticut | 43 | #84 | #271 |
| Massachusetts | 84 | #85 | #465 |
| New York | 213 | #85 | #352 |
| New Jersey | 107 | #93 | #412 |
| Rhode Island | 11 | #108 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,847 | 5,894 | #49 |
| 2024 | 85 | #2,228 | 6,635 | #36 |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,171 | 6,990 | #37 |
| 2022 | 98 | #2,001 | 7,049 | #40 |
| 2021 | 98 | #1,987 | 6,610 | #47 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,618 | 6,139 | #50 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,702 | 5,765 | #58 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,802 | 5,041 | #73 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,966 | 4,731 | #84 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,087 | 2,961 | #139 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,776 | 2,277 | #184 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,357 | 1,879 | #206 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,424 | 1,304 | #270 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,518 | 857 | #357 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,306 | 640 | #426 |
| 2010 | — | — | 509 | #507 |
| 2009 | — | — | 484 | #547 |
| 2008 | — | — | 535 | #507 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,855 | 455 | #566 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,047 | 395 | #606 |
| 2005 | — | — | 331 | #653 |
| 2004 | — | — | 236 | #768 |
| 2003 | — | — | 249 | #732 |
| 2002 | — | — | 216 | #800 |
| 2001 | — | — | 229 | #754 |
| 2000 | — | — | 184 | #864 |
| 1999 | — | — | 188 | #812 |
| 1998 | — | — | 191 | #804 |
| 1997 | — | — | 189 | #785 |
| 1996 | — | — | 167 | #843 |
| 1995 | — | — | 148 | #910 |
| 1994 | — | — | 128 | #978 |
| 1993 | — | — | 101 | #1,124 |
| 1992 | — | — | 76 | #1,298 |
| 1991 | — | — | 88 | #1,185 |
| 1990 | — | — | 75 | #1,282 |
| 1989 | — | — | 54 | #1,531 |
| 1988 | — | — | 48 | #1,542 |
| 1987 | — | — | 44 | #1,602 |
| 1986 | — | — | 19 | #2,748 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #3,037 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,069 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,358 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,229 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,767 |
| 1980 | — | — | 14 | #3,195 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,176 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,536 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,590 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,905 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,832 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #4,060 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,360 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,843 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,437 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,489 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,276 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,827 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,731 |
| 1965 | — | — | 11 | #2,570 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,779 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,269 |
| 1962 | — | — | 21 | #1,790 |
| 1961 | — | — | 26 | #1,590 |
| 1960 | — | — | 46 | #1,159 |
| 1959 | — | — | 61 | #990 |
| 1958 | — | — | 88 | #801 |
| 1957 | — | — | 33 | #1,379 |
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).