Mave
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAYV
- Origin
- Irish
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Mave is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “she who intoxicates”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Mave mean?
Irish: spelling of Maeve, from Medb
“she who intoxicates”
Spelling of Maeve, from Medb, the legendary warrior queen of Connacht in Irish myth.
Is Mave a girl's or a boy's name?
Mave is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mave in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Mave, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2021, with 3 girls.
In 2025, 1,619 girls in the UK were given Mave or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #21, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Mave in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
Names like Mave
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Grace, Sloane, Rose, Caoimhe, Bronte, Esme, Florence, Hope, Aoife, Brooke, Bree, Cove
Other spellings of Mave
Names related to Mave
More Irish names
Oscar, Rowan, Rory, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Orla, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey, Kennedy
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mave: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mave, updated 20 October 2026.