Girls' name · since 2019
Maev
30 babies named Maev in U.S. Social Security records since 2019, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #40,991 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,697 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 30
- born since 2019
- 2020s
- peak decade
30 babies have been named Maev since 2019, making it today's #16697 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Maev has been recorded 30 times among girls since 2019, currently ranked #16697 nationally and more common than 3% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2019 to 2025.
- #40,991 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,697 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 30 born since 2019
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Maev ranks #40,991 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,697 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 30 born since 2019, peaking in the 2020s.
- #40,991 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,697 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 30
- born since 2019
- 2020s
- peak decade
Maev's 30 recorded births place it above 43.1% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Maev compares
30 11th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Maev's all-time total is 92% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Maev | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 30 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 11 | 21 | 19,840 |
Maev's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Maev's SSA record in two at 2022 and the more recent half accounts for 53% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 47%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2021, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2022 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Maev popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–2025
- Peak year (2022)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
Maev by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (21 births, 70% of the file).
2020s was Maev's strongest decade.
21 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 70% of all-time use.
Maev births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
9 births
- 2020s
2020s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 21 births (70% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2019–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Maev draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.