Maite

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/mait̪e/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Maite is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From maite (“love, beloved”).

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 754(measured from records)
  • CLChile≈1 in 1.4K
  • BRBrazil1 in 3.5K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

59,696 people, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
223 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 754 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MaiteLatin(measured from records)
ΜαιτεGreek(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From maite (“love, beloved”).

Sources 3

  • Wiktionary
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
  • Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maite counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Maite is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—59,6961 in 3.5K60KMaite97
CL Chile#344≈13,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K1.2KMaite78
ES Spain#19512,2961 in 4.1K12KMaite173
ZA South Africa—≈8,400 est.≈1 in 6.7K—Maite30
AR Argentina#542≈8,100 est.≈1 in 5.6K1.4KMaite94
EC Ecuador—6,7461 in 2.5K6.7KMaite36
UY Uruguay#1564,4911 in 7544.5KMaite47

59,696 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Maite is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Spain, United States

    Also written Maïté, Maité, Maïte, Maîté, Maîte

  • Catalan given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Andorra

    Also written Maité

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Maïté, Maitê, Maïte, Maïtê, Maité

  • Swahili given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, Spain, United States, Ecuador

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Maïté, Maïte, Maitê, Maité

  • Lao given name61 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, India, Spain

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Mithu, มธุ, Mathu, Maité, มธี

  • Arabic given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Morocco, Belgium

    Also written Maïté, Maité, Maïte, Måįţë, Maitê

  • Hindi given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, India, United States, South Africa

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Maïté, Maitê, Maité, Maïte

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Maite is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Spanish: contracted pet form of Maria Teresa ; cf. MAICA . Coincidentally, the vocabulary word maite means ‘beloved, dear’ in the Basque language.

    as a word

  • In Finnish, any plant of the genus Lotus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Irish, past participle of maith

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In cnk, to wipe

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In lou, master

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, love; beloved; beloved, sweetheart

    as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Maite Blasco, b. 1938Maite Carranza, b. 1958Maite Ruiz de Austri, b. 1959Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, b. 1963Maite Carpio, b. 1967Maite Kelly, b. 1979Maite Perroni, b. 1983Maite Alberdi, b. 1983Maite Orsini, b. 1988Maite Oroz, b. 1998

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Maite,Hi Maite, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 64 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Maite
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202260K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—59K#506
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202040K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—12K#481
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—12K#249
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20246.7K#282
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—6.1K#2,944
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—4.5K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—4.4K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20241.4K#108
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20211.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—558#506

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Maite mean, and where does it come from?
From maite (“love, beloved”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74) and 1 other source.
In which country does Maite have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 60 thousand people named Maite, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maite.
Where is Maite most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maite is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 754 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How do you pronounce Maite?
A machine transcription gives /mait̪e/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Maite a male or female name?
Maite is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How common is the name Maite?
In Brazil, the national register counted 59,696 people named Maite in 2022, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
How common is Maite compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Maite is the 156th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maite” — the 156th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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