Maeve
Maeve stands at #76 nationally in 2025, with the curve still pointing up. Its record runs from 1940 through a 2025 peak, 29,608 children in all.
Maeve’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Maeve, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Maeve since 1940
Maeve is at its all-time peak right now: #76 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Maeve is most common
The state that gives Maeve most often, per girls born there, is Vermont (1.54% in 2025); New Hampshire and Rhode Island are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Maeve
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Millie
#73 in 2025
Micah
#90 in 2025 · Hebrew
Myles
#100 in 2025 · Greek
Margot
#102 in 2025 · Greek
Milo
#119 in 2025 · Greek
Miles
#44 in 2025 · Greek
Mila
#43 in 2025 · Slavonic
Matteo
#146 in 2025 · Hebrew
Browse: names starting with M · all names
About Maeve
How popular is the name Maeve?
Maeve stands at #76 nationally in 2025, with the curve still pointing up. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1940.
What does Maeve mean?
Maeve postdates the reference we are able to quote, so no meaning is shown; the popularity record above is the fact this page can stand on.
Is there a sibling name for Maeve?
Nearest by the published recipe: Millie, Micah and Myles. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Maeve’s free Name Kit
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