Maeva

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Maeva: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Maeva: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #70, and it stood at #136 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#70highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2738
2004	#3197
2006	#4157
2007	#5201
2008	#4524
2009	#4564
2010	#4012
2011	#5785
2012	#2717
2013	#4739
2014	#4003
2015	#5730
2016	#3214
2017	#3229
2018	#1977
2019	#682
2020	#354
2021	#221
2022	#139
2023	#123
2024	#124
2025	#136

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 22 of the 29 years from 1997 to 2025.

In 2025: #136 among girls in England and Wales, #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2738 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #136 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Maeva appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 2,012 births with the name.

Maeva across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Maeva's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2738 (1997)	#123 (2023)	#136 (2025)	22 of 29	2,012 (1997–2025)	404 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#495 (2020)	#412 (2024)	#544 (2025)	4 of 6	26 (2020–2025)	9 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#397 (2020)	#169 (2024)	#169 (2024)	5 of 5	27 (2020–2024)	11 (2024)

Maeva by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Maeva in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	5	1 of 10	5
2000s	20	5 of 10	4
2010s	114	10 of 10	11
2020sbusiest	1,873	6 of 10	312

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 312 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2021 and 2022, when recorded births rose by 136, from 226 to 362.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Maeva appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #70 in Scotland in 2024.

Maeva's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#136	366	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#124	390	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#123	404	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#139	362	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#221	226	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#354	125	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#682	57	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#169	11	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#243	7	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#412	9	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#70	57	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Maeva is officially recorded

4 official registrars have recorded Maeva, between 1997 and 2025, in 22 of those 29 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1997–2025	22	#123 in 2023
Northern Ireland	2020–2024	5	#169 in 2024
Republic of Ireland	2020–2025	4	#412 in 2024
Scotland	2024	1	#70 in 2024

No registrar recorded it for 6 years after 1997; it appears again in 2004.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #70, first reached in 2024.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 404 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 27 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Maelle · #3333, 14y
Maelys · #2925, 14y
Maeve · #25, 62y
Mafalda · #3536, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Lyra · #70, 26y
Myla · #63, 24y
Miley · #79, 27y
Ayda · #82, 18y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Harmony · #70, 30y
Keegan · #70, 30y
Lyra · #70, 26y
Raya · #70, 30y

Maeva was ranked #70 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Alba#66
Lyla#68
Molly#68
Myla#70
Erin#72
Fiadh#72
Nora#72
Romi#72

Maeva and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Maeva without appearing here.

Maeva moved ahead of

Ryan
In 2024 they stood at #5730 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2025 that had become #136 and #5927.
Kirsten
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #682 and #5591.
Jayden
In 2017 they stood at #4739 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1977 and #5666.
Malin
In 2018 they stood at #3229 and #2706 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #682 and #4001.

Moved ahead of Maeva

Mila
In 2003 they stood at #2738 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #3197 and #1072.
Harper
In 2005 they stood at #3197 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #4157 and #2137.

Moved the opposite way to Maeva

Abigail
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maeva went from #2738 to #136 while Abigail went from #24 to #171.
Aimee
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maeva went from #2738 to #136 while Aimee went from #61 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maeva went from #2738 to #136 while Aisling went from #496 to #1892.
Alex
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maeva went from #2738 to #136 while Alex went from #179 to #2605.

Moved the same way as Maeva

Ada
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maeva went from #2738 to #136 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maeva went from #2738 to #136 and Alma from #2411 to #211.
Amalie
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maeva went from #2738 to #136 and Amalie from #3824 to #894.
Amelia
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maeva went from #2738 to #136 and Amelia from #49 to #3.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #70 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Maeva

Maeva at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Maeva across 3 official records

Maeva by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Maeva appears in

Popularity data

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Maeva at a glance

Maeva across 3 official records

Maeva by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Maeva

Maeva and the names beside it

Maeva moved ahead of

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