Maeve Girl
How popular is Maeve?
#76 girl name in 2025
3,153 baby girls were named Maeve in the US in 2025, making it the 76th most popular girl name.
Maeve popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #76 for girls (▼ 1 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 3,153 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+349% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #451 in 2015, #174 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2025 (3,153 girls) |
| Highest rank | #73 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1940 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Maeve counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Maeve family of names ranked #105 for girls in 2025 (#109 the year before), with 3,158 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Maeve | 3,153 | 100% |
| Maev | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Maeve is most popular
Babies named Maeve per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Vermont: 15.5 per 1,000 (75 girls)
- New Hampshire: 10.7 per 1,000 (198 girls)
- Rhode Island: 8.9 per 1,000 (112 girls)
- Maine: 8.5 per 1,000 (131 girls)
- Massachusetts: 6.7 per 1,000 (816 girls)
Maeve by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 50 | #2,844 |
| 1950s | 74 | #3,489 |
| 1960s | 102 | #3,175 |
| 1970s | 89 | #4,931 |
| 1980s | 333 | #2,066 |
| 1990s | 1,450 | #666 |
| 2000s | 4,072 | #594 |
| 2010s | 7,545 | #244 |
| 2020s | 15,893 | #73 |
Girl names about as popular as Maeve
Questions
- Is Maeve a boy or girl name?
- Maeve is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Maeve were girls.
- How popular is the name Maeve?
- 3,153 baby girls were named Maeve in the US in 2025, making it the 76th most popular girl name.
- When was Maeve most popular?
- Maeve peaked in 2025, when 3,153 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #73 in 2023.
- How many people are named Maeve?
- 29,608 babies have been named Maeve in the US since 1880. We estimate about 29,417 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 6.
- Where is Maeve most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Maeve was most common in Vermont, at 15.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.