Girl name#783 of girl names
Maeve
Pronounced M AH0 EH1 V (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2024
- 85 years in use
How popular is Maeve?
Maeve is a girls' name, and first appears in 1940. It has been given to 26,442 children — the 783rd most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about three times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2024, when 3,098 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- M AH0 EH1 V
- Stress pattern:
- 01
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Maeve
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Maeve
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Maeve?
- Maeve ranks 783rd among girls' names in US records, with 26,442 births since 1940. Over the past decade it accounts for 17,394.
- Is Maeve a unisex name?
- No. Maeve is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Maeve most popular?
- 2024, when 3,098 children were given the name. It has been in use for 85 years and is still recorded as of 2024.