Mave
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant spelling of Maeve, also sometimes used as an informal short form of )>Mavis
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmeɪv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mave is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 3.3Kas Maeve(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 24Kas Maeve
- AUAustralia≈1 in 34Kas Maeve
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mave itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 590K (inferred from the name graph)
13,956 named Maeve, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Maeve in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more.
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)
Variant spelling of Maeve, also sometimes used as an informal short form of )>Mavis.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mave 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 13,956as Maeve | 1 in 24K | 14K | Maeve | 303 |
| IE Ireland | #232 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 43 | Maeve | 124 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 61K | 1.3K | Maeve | 148 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 427 | Maeve | 121 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 339as Maeve | 1 in 51K | 339 | Maeve | 16 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 590K | — | Maeve | 23 |
13,956 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Mave is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Greek; devotee of St John
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1 Irish: variant of MAEVE . 2 English: informal short form of MAVIS . Top
as a word
In Danish, stomach, tummy, belly (the organ processing digestion of food)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, abdomen, belly, stomach
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, gull; seagull
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Maeve Binchyb. 1940IEIrish novelist
- Meave Leakeyb. 1942GBnot in their usual nameBritish paleoanthropologist
- Maeve van der Steenb. 1949NLDutch actress (born 1949)
- Maeve Quinlanb. 1964USAmerican actress
- Maeve Jinkingsb. 1976BRBrazilian actress
- Maeve Kennedy McKeanb. 1979USAmerican public health official, human rights attorney and academic ( 1979-2020)
- Maeve Higginsb. 1981IEIrish comedian
- Bridget Phillipsonb. 1983GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician (born 1983)
- Maeve Dermodyb. 1985AUAustralian actress
- Maeve Pressb. 2003USAmerican actress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 14 | #18,281 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 13 | #15,282 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 10 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 9 | #30,513 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 9 | #30,513 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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
- How do you pronounce Mave?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmeɪv/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Mave mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant spelling of Maeve, also sometimes used as an informal short form of )>Mavis. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Mave?
- In the etymology graph, Maeve, Meadhbh and Méabh are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Mave a male or female name?
- Mave 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.
- In which country does Mave have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Maeve, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mave?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,956 people named Maeve in 2020, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Mave compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Mave is the 232nd most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maveThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Mave” — the 232nd most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.