Maven
Maven is given to both girls and boys: 133 girls and 32 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,584 among girls’ names and #3,563 among boys’, #2,529 among all names counting both); 1,795 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Maven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maven?
#1,584 among girls’ names, 2025
Maven rose from #3,574 in 2015 to #1,584 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 24.6 to 82.7 per million.
204 babies in 2023, the peak
Maven peaked in 2023, when 204 babies were given it (156 girls, #1,436 among girls’ names). The 165 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 81% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 133 | #1,584 | 32 | #3,563 |
| 2024 | 139 | #1,539 | 37 | #3,253 |
| 2023 | 156 | #1,436 | 48 | #2,719 |
| 2022 | 116 | #1,778 | 29 | #3,832 |
| 2021 | 103 | #1,923 | 33 | #3,462 |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,043 | 18 | #5,159 |
| 2019 | 91 | #2,087 | 16 | #5,716 |
| 2018 | 82 | #2,249 | 19 | #5,035 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,501 | 28 | #3,852 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,584 | 24 | #4,271 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,574 | 14 | #6,188 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,704 | 20 | #4,803 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,822 | 14 | #6,125 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,830 | 18 | #5,173 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,060 | 12 | #6,858 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,051 | 16 | #5,641 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 17 | #5,469 | |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,841 | 15 | #5,960 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 10 | #7,974 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 14 | #5,989 | |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,760 | 10 | #7,474 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,345 | 5 | #12,553 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 15 | #5,180 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,183 | 24 | #3,625 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 24 | #3,577 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,658 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,700 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Maven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,795 Americans recorded as Maven, 71% are girls and 29% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maven, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,795 Americans ever recorded as Maven. The median Maven alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 845 people named Maven (546 women and girls, 299 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 881 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 259 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,520 |
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 Maven born?
The states with the most babies named Maven are Texas, California and Missouri, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | #1,594 | 0.6× |
| California | 13 | #2,413 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 8 | #707 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 7 | #760 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,382 | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,149 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,552 | 0.2× |
| Utah | 5 | #789 | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #827 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,541 | 0.1× |
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 Maven 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,026 babies since 1880, Maven is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 165 of their 358 babies (46%), again the 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 Maven
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 Maven and names like it
- Compare Maven and MaevynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaven peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maven since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Maven.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maven alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.