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Maevie

Gender
Girl
Say it
MAY-vee
Origin
Irish
UK rank, 2025
#1,779 for girls
US rank, 2025
#7,489 for girls

Maevie is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “she who intoxicates”. In 2025 it ranked 1,779th for girls in the UK (17 babies) and 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).

What does Maevie mean?

Irish: pet form of Maeve

“she who intoxicates”

A pet form of Maeve, from Medb, the warrior queen of Connacht in Irish legend.

Is Maevie a girl's or a boy's name?

Maevie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the UK and 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Maevie in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#1,779among girls
Babies in 2025
17about 1 in 16,000 girls
Five-year trend
Newly popularnew in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 17 girls in the UK were named Maevie, making it the 1,779th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 17 girls.

Half of all the girls named Maevie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2022 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 23 girls in the UK were given Maevie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,236, up from #1,779 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 1,719th in England and Wales.

2020Busiest: 17 in 20242025
Maevie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202517#1,779
202417#1,803
202316#1,873
202212#2,277
20210–
20205#4,110

How popular is Maevie in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,489among girls
Babies in 2025
14about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Maevie, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. It first appears in the records in 2023.

2023Busiest: 14 in 20252025
Maevie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202514#7,489
202412#8,438
20238#11,164

Names like Maevie

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Maevie

Names related to Maevie

More Irish names

Every Irish name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Maevie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maevie, updated 20 October 2026.