Girls' name · since 2017
Mave
Since 2017, U.S. Social Security records show 54 babies named Mave, peaking in 2021. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #34,138 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,964 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 54
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
54 babies have been named Mave since 2017, making it today's #12964 girls' name.
Mave has 54 recorded births among girls since 2017, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #12964 as of the latest data, more common than 25% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #34,138 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,964 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 54 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Mave ranks #34,138 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,964 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 54 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #34,138 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,964 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 54
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Mave's 54 recorded births place it above 52.66% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Mave compares
54 17th 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
Mave's all-time total is 86% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Mave | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 54 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 10 | 21 | 19,840 |
Mave's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Mave's full recorded timeline at 2022, 50% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 50% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2018, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2021 peak of 10 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Mave popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Mave by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (37 births, 69% of the file).
2020s was Mave's strongest decade.
37 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 69% of all-time use.
Mave births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
17 births
- 2020s
2020s
37 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 37 births (69% 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, 2017–2025 (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 Mave 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.