Mayve
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Mayve is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “she who intoxicates”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 2,957th for girls in the US (56 babies).
What does Mayve mean?
Irish: spelling of Maeve
“she who intoxicates”
Maeve is the anglicised form of Medb, the legendary warrior queen of Connacht in Irish myth.
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Is Mayve a girl's or a boy's name?
Mayve is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 56 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mayve in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 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, 3 girls in the UK were named Mayve, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2024, with 4 girls.
In 2025, 1,619 girls in the UK were given Mayve 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.
Mayve in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 1 | #7,582 |
How popular is Mayve in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,957among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 56about 1 in 29,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popularnew in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 56 girls in the US were named Mayve, making it the 2,957th most popular name for girls. It first appears in the records in 2015.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Mayve of any year since it first appeared, in 2015.
Half of all the girls named Mayve in the US since 1880 were born between 2023 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 3,241 girls in the US were given Mayve or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #95, up from #2,957 for this spelling alone.
Mayve in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,957 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,770 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,917 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
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