How rare is the name Maeve?

13,956 people in the United States have the first name Maeve, about 1 in 21,642. It ranks #1,982 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MAEVE

#1,982

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
13,956
About
1 in 21,642
This common or more
78%
Who bears it

Of the 13,956 people named Maeve, 90.8% reported their origin as White, 4% as two or more races and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Maeve peaked in 2025, when 3,153 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19402025
Peak year
2025
Births that year
3,153
In 2025*
3,153
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 29,608 babies have been given the name since 1940. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Maeve by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #255. The largest share of babies named Maeve, 73.7%, were born in 2013 or later.

1940s#6,92350
1950s#6,85274
1960s#6,402102
1970s#8,84689
1980s#4,495333
1990s#2,1121,450
2000s#1,2474,072
2010s#8167,545
2020s#25515,893
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–640.5%
Generation X 1965–800.5%
Millennials 1981–963.3%
Generation Z 1997–1221.8%
2013 and later73.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Maeve is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Maeve has been most common in New Hampshire (4.3×), Massachusetts (3.8×), and Vermont (2.8×), and least common in Mississippi (0.14×).

27,871 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Maeve

#1,980 Lilah · 13,981#1,981 Marcie · 13,968#1,983 Bart · 13,955#1,984 Adriel · 13,945

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Maeve, most common first.

#14,793 Maeva · 790

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