Maven
- #1,581 for girls in 2025, 133 births
- #3,513 for boys in 2025, 32 births
- Given to girls 71.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 156 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,283since 1998
Maven over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,581 | 133 | #3,513 | 32 |
| 2024 | #1,536 | 139 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2023 | #1,430 | 156 | #2,693 | 48 |
| 2022 | #1,775 | 116 | #3,774 | 29 |
| 2021 | #1,910 | 103 | #3,427 | 33 |
| 2020 | #2,034 | 91 | #5,041 | 18 |
| 2019 | #2,070 | 91 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #2,238 | 82 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #2,487 | 72 | #3,781 | 28 |
| 2016 | #2,560 | 69 | #4,199 | 24 |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #2,683 | 65 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #3,778 | 40 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | — | #5,334 | 17 | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | — | #7,590 | 10 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,781 | 14 | |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | — | #5,035 | 15 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | — | #3,512 | 24 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1998
The first year at least five girls were named Maven! It came in at #14,122, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1998–2003, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Maven is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | #640 | 8 | 1 in 3,037 |
| Colorado | #703 | 7 | 1 in 3,332 |
| Utah | #704 | 5 | 1 in 3,415 |
| Kentucky | #744 | 5 | 1 in 3,450 |
| Indiana | #1,032 | 5 | 1 in 5,582 |
| Ohio | #1,271 | 6 | 1 in 7,878 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,392 | 5 | 1 in 9,338 |
| Illinois | #1,405 | 5 | 1 in 8,866 |
| Texas | #1,532 | 15 | 1 in 10,703 |
| California | #2,276 | 8 | 1 in 20,216 |
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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 Maven
Momentum · girls
Rising
- 45 spots since 2024 (#1,536 → #1,581)
- 453 spots since 2020 (#2,034 → #1,581)
Rise & fade · girls
25 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2023 at #1,430 (156 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,286
- Highest: 1 in 10,286 girls born in 2023 were named Maven (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,085 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
- 57.5% of all girls named Maven (738) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2011
- Mostly boys until 2010, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #14,122 (1998) | #14,122 |
| 2000s | 31 | #11,624 (2004) | #14,084 |
| 2010s | 509 | #2,070 (2019) | #4,512 |
| 2020s | 738 | #1,430 (2023) | #1,711 |
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.
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