Maveric
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MAV-er-ik
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #4,706 for boys
Maveric is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “independent-minded person”. In 2025 it ranked 4,706th for boys in the US (21 babies).
What does Maveric mean?
English: spelling variant of Maverick
“independent-minded person”
From Texas rancher Samuel Maverick, who left his calves unbranded; maverick came to mean a nonconformist.
Is Maveric a girl's or a boy's name?
Maveric is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 21 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maveric in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,706th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 21 about 1 in 81,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 39% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 21 boys in the US were named Maveric, making it the 4,706th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,504th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 51 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had fewer boys named Maveric than any year since 2015.
Half of all the boys named Maveric in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,013 boys in the US were given Maveric or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #55, up from #4,706 for this spelling alone.
Maveric in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,706 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,791 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,109 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,149 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,861 |
| 2020 | 51 | #2,504 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,423 |
| 2018 | 40 | #2,942 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,310 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,160 |
| 2015 | 17 | #5,285 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,530 |
| 2013 | 14 | #5,919 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,300 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,670 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 8 | #8,980 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,244 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,241 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,579 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,144 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,574 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,636 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
Nicknames for Maveric
- Mav 10 boys in the US in 2025
Names like Maveric
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Mateo, Archer, Beckett, Hudson, Everest, Wilder, Shepherd, Easton, Mathias, Miller, Colson, Caspian
Other spellings of Maveric
Names related to Maveric
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
Sources
Figures from 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, “Maveric: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maveric, updated 20 October 2026.