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How popular is “Maeve” in the USA?

Number of people named “Maeve” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Maeve” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Maeve” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Maeve” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Maeve” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Maeve” by birth year

This chart shows how “Maeve” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1940 8 0.000003474 8 100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 100%
1954 11 0.000002763 11 100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 100%
1958 11 0.000002661 11 100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 100%
1960 15 0.000003611 15 100%
1961 12 0.000002897 12 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1963 16 0.000004042 16 100%
1964 12 0.000003087 12 100%
1965 11 0.000003034 11 100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1969 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 100%
1977 12 0.000003778 12 100%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 100%
1979 13 0.000003907 13 100%
1980 13 0.000003774 13 100%
1981 21 0.00000607 21 100%
1982 19 0.000005416 19 100%
1983 23 0.000006641 23 100%
1984 30 0.000008599 30 100%
1985 32 0.000008966 32 100%
1986 45 0.000012651 45 100%
1987 41 0.000011371 41 100%
1988 56 0.000015155 56 100%
1989 52 0.000013526 52 100%
1990 48 0.000012144 48 100%
1991 67 0.0000172 67 100%
1992 79 0.000020566 79 100%
1993 90 0.000023871 90 100%
1994 102 0.000027437 102 100%
1995 133 0.000036317 133 100%
1996 141 0.00003866 141 100%
1997 207 0.000057092 207 100%
1998 240 0.000065249 240 100%
1999 343 0.000092857 343 100%
2000 295 0.000078044 295 100%
2001 317 0.000084683 317 100%
2002 350 0.000093626 350 100%
2003 413 0.000108618 413 100%
2004 378 0.000098929 378 100%
2005 398 0.000103515 398 100%
2006 447 0.000112988 447 100%
2007 480 0.00012007 480 100%
2008 486 0.000123643 486 100%
2009 508 0.000132978 508 100%
2010 546 0.000147738 546 100%
2011 489 0.000133687 489 100%
2012 571 0.000156123 571 100%
2013 625 0.000171436 625 100%
2014 648 0.000174834 648 100%
2015 703 0.000189953 703 100%
2016 820 0.000223513 820 100%
2017 867 0.000242436 867 100%
2018 973 0.000276743 973 100%
2019 1303 0.000375403 1303 100%
2020 1644 0.000492131 1644 100%
2021 2253 0.000665004 2253 100%
2022 2676 0.000790982 2676 100%
2023 3057 0.000923231 3057 100%
2024 3098 0.000930749 3098 100%

Explore other names

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  2. Maev
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  5. Maevalynn
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