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 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Missouri#640 · 1 in 3,037
- Colorado#703 · 1 in 3,332
- Utah#704 · 1 in 3,415
- Kentucky#744 · 1 in 3,450
- Indiana#1,032 · 1 in 5,582
Best ever in a state: #482 in Arkansas, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| 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
- 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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 12,085 of them was named Maven, which outranked 90.9% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #1,570Vaeda134
- #1,570Yitty134
- #1,570Ziva134
- #1,581Maven133
- #1,581Aimee133
- #1,581Aylany133
- #1,581Elyanna133
- #1,587Kinsleigh132
- #1,587Koa132
- #1,587Lidia132
Tied with 5 names at #1,581; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 53,377 of them was named Maven, which outranked 74.8% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #3,450Zackery33
- #3,450Zakariah33
- #3,450Zayven33
- #3,513Maven32
- #3,513Aarin32
- #3,513Adonnis32
- #3,513Agasthya32
- #3,583Adham31
- #3,583Amire31
- #3,583Anirudh31
Tied with 69 names at #3,513; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.