Maive
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Maive is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “she who intoxicates”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Maive mean?
Irish: spelling of Maeve
“she who intoxicates”
Medb (Maeve) is the warrior queen of Connacht who leads the cattle raid in the Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge.
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Is Maive a girl's or a boy's name?
Maive is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maive in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,276among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 93% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Maive, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 13 girls.
Half of all the girls named Maive in the UK since 1996 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,619 girls in the UK were given Maive or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #21, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Maive in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 13 | #2,175 |
| 2023 | 11 | #2,481 |
| 2022 | 12 | #2,277 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
How popular is Maive in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 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, 12 girls in the US were named Maive, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Maive in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 3,241 girls in the US were given Maive or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #95, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Maive in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,979 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
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