Maeva
Maeva was given to 156 girls in 2025, #1,403 among girls’ names; 1,416 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,400 Americans named Maeva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maeva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maeva mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Maeva is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “welcome” (maeva).
From Tahitian maeva (“welcome”).
/ma.e.va/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maeva?
#1,403 among girls’ names, 2025
Maeva rose from #3,685 in 2015 to #1,403 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.5 to 97.1 per million.
178 babies in 2023, the peak
Maeva peaked in 2023, when 178 girls were given it, #1,288 among girls’ names. The 156 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 156 | #1,403 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 174 | #1,321 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 178 | #1,288 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 132 | #1,607 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 93 | #2,061 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 93 | #2,016 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 82 | #2,246 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,549 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,599 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,687 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,685 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,398 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,302 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,919 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,428 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,799 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,555 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,062 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,613 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,361 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,865 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,042 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,440 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,610 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,622 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,137 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,715 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,661 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maeva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maeva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maeva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maeva, and how old are they?
1,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,416 Americans ever recorded as Maeva. The median Maeva alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 790 people named Maeva (783 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 604 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 205 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,180 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Maeva born?
The states with the most babies named Maeva are California, Florida and Washington, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | #1,455 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,037 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 10 | #658 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,320 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,100 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 7 | #885 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,331 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,112 | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | #2,280 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,541 | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maeva with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 32,002 babies since 1880, Maeva is the second most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 156 of their 3,445 babies (4.5%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maeva
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maeva and names like it
- Compare Maeva and MaeveBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaeva peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maeva since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Maeva: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Maeva.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maeva alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.