Maeve

girls:

23.3k births since 1940

#932 (84th percentile)

overall:

23.3k births since 1940

#1660 (79th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maeve".

1940 2023 19402023

Key Statistics

Total Births
23,330
Peak Births
3,046
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1940
Peak Percentile
92.6%
Current Percentile
92.6%
Peak Rank
#71
Current Rank
#71
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Maeve

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Maeve. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 85.0% confident that Maeve is pronounced as mayv. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-EHV, at 15.0% confidence.

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85.0%
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15.0%
mayv (1 syllable)
85.0% confidence
M EY1 V
muh-EHV (2 syllables)
Verified
15.0% confidence
M AH0 EH1 V

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Maeve. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Maeve, please vote using the thumbs up button.

MAY-vuh (2 syllables)
5 names 1.5k births
M EY1 V AH0
MAY-huh (2 syllables)
3 names 188 births
M EY1 HH AH0

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M EY1 V) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.