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Maeva

#1,403 in 2025Girls' name

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Maeva has been given to 1,416 babies in the U.S. since 1940. In 2025 it ranked #1,403 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 178 recorded.

Babies named Maeva, 2025

1 in 21,300

Maeva over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maeva: meaning, origin, and history

Welcome

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maeva means

Maeva means “welcome”, associated with maeva.

Origin, language, and formation

Maeva is used in French.

Maeva comes through Tahitian maeva.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Maeva is pronounced /ma.e.va/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,416 girls were recorded with the name Maeva between 1940 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 178 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,288 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,016 in 2020 to #1,403 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,685 in 2015 to #1,403 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maeva?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,300
156 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,403
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,731 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maeva sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,731 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maeva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maevas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maeva was born before 2021 — so the typical Maeva is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
58.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,400
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Choose a decade

2020s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (826).

Is Maeva rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−82
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+613
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,282
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.6%
Peak was 2023 (178)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,288
2023

Spellings of Maeva

Maeva is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 30.3% against Maeva's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Maeva is used

Across 2016–2025, Maeva was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 20,005 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 7,692
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 10,000
  3. 3Iowa1 in 11,111
  4. 4Ohio1 in 12,500
  5. 5Washington1 in 12,500
  6. 6Michigan1 in 14,286
  7. 7Florida1 in 16,667
  8. 8Illinois1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Maeva around the world

Where Maeva ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #136
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2025
    #66
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2020–2025
    #290
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • France
    1960–2025
    #480
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #143
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1946–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maeva by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,403
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 613
Best rank ever
#1,288
2023
Peak year
2023
178 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,416
Count in 2025
156

Names similar to Maeva

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Maeva

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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