Maverick
Maverick was given to 5,894 boys in 2025, #49 among boys’ names; 71,375 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 70,700 Americans named Maverick 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 9.
Maverick came back: it left the boys’ top 1,000 after 1959 and returned in 1994.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maverick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maverick mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maverick is “a male given name.”
The surname is most famously associated with Samuel Maverick, a rancher from Texas who did not brand his cattle. The surname is of uncertain origin, but known to date as far back as the 1500s in Devon, England. Its meaning is a matter of conjecture, with connections to the name Maurice being unprovable.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maverick?
#49 among boys’ names, 2025
Maverick rose from #184 in 2015 to #49 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 1.2 to 3.5 per 1,000.
7,147 babies in 2022, the peak
Maverick peaked in 2022, when 7,147 babies were given it (7,049 boys, #40 among boys’ names). The 5,954 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,894 | #49 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 6,635 | #36 | 3.9 |
| 2023 | 6,990 | #37 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 7,049 | #40 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 6,610 | #47 | 3.8 |
| 2020 | 6,139 | #50 | 3.6 |
| 2019 | 5,765 | #58 | 3.2 |
| 2018 | 5,041 | #73 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 4,731 | #84 | 2.6 |
| 2016 | 2,961 | #139 | 1.6 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,277 | #184 | 1.2 |
| 2014 | 1,879 | #206 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 1,304 | #270 | 0.69 |
| 2012 | 857 | #357 | 0.45 |
| 2011 | 640 | #426 | 0.34 |
| 2010 | 509 | #507 | 0.27 |
| 2009 | 484 | #547 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 535 | #507 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 455 | #566 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 395 | #606 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 331 | #653 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 236 | #768 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 249 | #732 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 216 | #799 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 229 | #753 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 184 | #862 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 188 | #810 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 191 | #803 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 189 | #783 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 167 | #841 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 148 | #907 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 128 | #974 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,120 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 76 | #1,293 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 88 | #1,179 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 75 | #1,277 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 54 | #1,526 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 48 | #1,537 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 44 | #1,600 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,745 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,034 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,065 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,357 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,228 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,765 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,194 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,174 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,535 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,588 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,903 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,830 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,058 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,358 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,841 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,435 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,488 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,275 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,826 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,569 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,778 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,268 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,789 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 26 | #1,589 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,158 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 61 | #989 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 88 | #800 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,378 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maverick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 71,375 Americans recorded as Maverick, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 60 girls and 5,894 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maverick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maverick, and how old are they?
70,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 71,375 Americans ever recorded as Maverick. The median Maverick alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 29,028 people named Maverick (307 women and girls, 28,721 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 32,793 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 221 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 118 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 967 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,840 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 63,600 |
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 Maverick born?
The states with the most babies named Maverick are Texas, California and Florida, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 544 | #71 | 0.8× |
| California | 456 | #83 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 405 | #41 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 253 | #35 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 244 | #44 | 1.0× |
| New York | 213 | #85 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 204 | #47 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 198 | #25 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 194 | #46 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 192 | #12 | 1.4× |
Where Maverick is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maverick is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1957 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Maverick 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 76,242 babies since 1880, Maverick is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5,954 of their 6,191 babies (96%), 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 Maverick
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 Maverick and names like it
- Compare Maverick and MavrickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaverick peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maverick since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Maverick.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maverick alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.