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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. 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 | 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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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 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Michigan#809 · 1 in 4,259
- Indiana#1,054 · 1 in 5,677
- North Carolina#1,412 · 1 in 9,015
- California#1,921 · 1 in 15,866
- Texas#2,324 · 1 in 19,435
Best ever in a state: #482 in Arkansas, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #809 | 9 | 1 in 4,259 |
| Indiana | #1,054 | 5 | 1 in 5,677 |
| North Carolina | #1,412 | 5 | 1 in 9,015 |
| California | #1,921 | 11 | 1 in 15,866 |
| Texas | #2,324 | 8 | 1 in 19,435 |
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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
- 45 spots since 2024 (#1,536 → #1,581)
- 453 spots since 2020 (#2,034 → #1,581)
- 1,952 spots since 2015 (#3,533 → #1,581)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2023 at #1,430 (156 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 57.5% of all girls named Maven (738) were born in this decade
- 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.
Maven in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 15,931 of them was named Maven, which outranked 89.2% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,897Rosalinda104
- #1,897Taelyn104
- #1,897Zulema104
- #1,910Maven103
- #1,910Adlee103
- #1,910Ali103
- #1,910Areli103
- #1,926Anabelle102
- #1,926Analise102
- #1,926Annistyn102
Tied with 15 names at #1,910; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 53,015 of them was named Maven, which outranked 75.7% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,362Zaelyn34
- #3,362Zair34
- #3,362Zhaire34
- #3,427Maven33
- #3,427Akil33
- #3,427Alston33
- #3,427Atlee33
- #3,497Aasim32
- #3,497Akim32
- #3,497Akio32
Tied with 69 names at #3,427; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.