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Maite

#1,195 in 2025Girls' name

Love, beloved

Maite has been given to 4,466 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #1,195 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 244 recorded.

Babies named Maite, 2025

1 in 17,200

Maite 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maite: meaning, origin, and history

Love, beloved

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maite means

Maite means “love, beloved”, associated with maite.

Origin, language, and formation

Maite is used in Basque and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include María Teresa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Maite is pronounced /mai̯te/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,466 girls were recorded with the name Maite between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 244 in 2011; its best national rank was #1,024 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,438 in 2020 to #1,195 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,323 in 2015 to #1,195 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 Maite?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,200
193 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,330
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,195
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,907 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maite 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,907 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maite. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maites were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maite was born before 2013 — so the typical Maite is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,466
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (1,811).

Is Maite 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
−152
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+243
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+128
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
79.1%
Peak was 2011 (244)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,024
2011

Spellings of Maite

Maite is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 30.4% against Maite's 0.25%.

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 Maite is used

Across 2016–2025, Maite was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 3,333 girls, against 1 in 7,634 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

130 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 3,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 4,000
  3. 3California1 in 4,762
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 7,692
  5. 5Illinois1 in 8,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 9,091
  7. 7Arizona1 in 11,111
  8. 8Idaho1 in 12,500

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.

Maite around the world

Where Maite 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
    2009–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2022–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • France
    1932–2025
    #4,439
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,049
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1967–1967
    #650
    in 1967

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Notable people named Maite

People whose public names include Maite, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maite in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Maite. Linked forms have their own page here.

MayteMaría Teresa

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Maite by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,195
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 243
Best rank ever
#1,024
2011
Peak year
2011
244 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,466
Count in 2025
193

Names similar to Maite

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

MaiyaMaisyMaileMairaMaidaMaizyMaizieMaijaMaiahMaishaMaisynMaiMailaMaisieMailyMaiseyMaiaMaikaMailynMaisonMailiMairinMaizeyMailen

Names with a curve like Maite

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maite, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ElleryDalilahKaleahAilynMarlieLeelaLeilahJazzlynAmariahZaharaSaanviMaylin

Sibling names for Maite

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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