Maeve
#76 for girls in 2025, 3,153 births
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 3,062 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 3 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 29,608since 1940
Maeve over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #76 | 3,153 |
| 2024 | #75 | 3,105 |
| 2023 | #73 | 3,062 |
| 2022 | #103 | 2,676 |
| 2021 | #124 | 2,253 |
| 2020 | #174 | 1,644 |
| 2019 | #244 | 1,303 |
| 2018 | #334 | 973 |
| 2017 | #360 | 867 |
| 2016 | #406 | 820 |
| 2015 | #451 | 703 |
| 2014 | #486 | 648 |
| 2013 | #485 | 625 |
| 2012 | #530 | 571 |
| 2011 | #591 | 489 |
| 2010 | #536 | 546 |
| 2009 | #594 | 508 |
| 2008 | #636 | 486 |
| 2007 | #621 | 480 |
| 2006 | #643 | 447 |
| 2005 | #695 | 398 |
| 2004 | #710 | 378 |
| 2003 | #643 | 413 |
| 2002 | #710 | 350 |
| 2001 | #756 | 317 |
| 2000 | #774 | 295 |
| 1999 | #667 | 343 |
| 1998 | #878 | 240 |
| 1997 | #953 | 207 |
| 1996 | #1,238 | 141 |
| 1995 | #1,265 | 133 |
| 1994 | #1,521 | 102 |
| 1993 | #1,664 | 90 |
| 1992 | #1,818 | 79 |
| 1991 | #2,034 | 67 |
| 1990 | #2,492 | 48 |
| 1989 | #2,278 | 52 |
| 1988 | #2,071 | 56 |
| 1987 | #2,493 | 41 |
| 1986 | #2,228 | 46 |
| 1985 | #2,860 | 32 |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 |
| 1982 | #4,025 | 19 |
| 1981 | #3,739 | 21 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 |
| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 |
| 1963 | #3,176 | 16 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 |
| 1960 | #3,212 | 15 |
| 1959 | #3,827 | 11 |
| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 |
| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
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| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 |
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| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
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| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
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| 1941 | #2,846 | 10 |
| 1940 | #3,208 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Maeve! It came in at #3,208, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1942, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Maeve is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#195 · 1 in 938
- Illinois#430 · 1 in 2,515
- Minnesota#442 · 1 in 2,808
- Maryland#536 · 1 in 3,420
- New York#579 · 1 in 3,730
Best ever in a state: #4 in New Hampshire, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #195 | 34 | 1 in 938 |
| Illinois | #430 | 28 | 1 in 2,515 |
| Minnesota | #442 | 9 | 1 in 2,808 |
| Maryland | #536 | 7 | 1 in 3,420 |
| New York | #579 | 27 | 1 in 3,730 |
| Pennsylvania | #639 | 12 | 1 in 4,858 |
| New Jersey | #652 | 9 | 1 in 4,609 |
| Colorado | #653 | 6 | 1 in 3,710 |
| Ohio | #653 | 12 | 1 in 5,135 |
| Virginia | #670 | 7 | 1 in 4,844 |
| Washington | #755 | 6 | 1 in 4,872 |
| North Carolina | #898 | 6 | 1 in 7,015 |
| Michigan | #1,139 | 5 | 1 in 10,303 |
| California | #1,224 | 20 | 1 in 11,051 |
| Texas | #2,427 | 5 | 1 in 28,689 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Maeve
- 1 spot since 2024 (#75 → #76)
- 98 spots since 2020 (#174 → #76)
- 375 spots since 2015 (#451 → #76)
- Biggest jump: 285 spots in 1997 (#1,238 → #953)
- Biggest drop: 107 spots in 2000 (#667 → #774)
- Debuted 1940
- Peaked 2023 at #73 (3,062 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 3 yrs · run 2023–2025
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1997–2025
- Highest: 1 in 510 girls born in 2025 were named Maeve (0.20%)
- Its best rank, #73 in 2023, was only 1 in 524 (0.19%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 53.7% of all girls named Maeve (15,893) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 50 | #2,846 (1941) | #3,869 |
| 1950s | 74 | #3,490 (1954) | #4,478 |
| 1960s | 102 | #3,176 (1963) | #4,635 |
| 1970s | 89 | #4,931 (1978) | #5,712 |
| 1980s | 333 | #2,071 (1988) | #3,129 |
| 1990s | 1,450 | #667 (1999) | #1,453 |
| 2000s | 4,072 | #594 (2009) | #678 |
| 2010s | 7,545 | #244 (2019) | #442 |
| 2020s | 15,893 | #73 (2023) | #104 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Maeve in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 7,362 of them was named Maeve, which outranked 94.7% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #871Rochelle242
- #876Jaida241
- #876Octavia241
- #878Maeve240
- #878Daisha240
- #878Jena240
- #878Kendal240
- #884Alysia239
- #884Jayden239
- #884Jocelyne239
Tied with 5 names at #878; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.