Entry № 6203 · Irish origin

Maeve Maeve — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAYV /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"She who intoxicates"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Irish myth)

A name that means "she who intoxicates".

Maeve has been in U.S. records since 2003 and has been rising rapidly — it now sits in the top 115.

She who intoxicates — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Maeve
Transliteration
Maeve
Pronunciation
/ meɪv /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Maeve stands.

Maeve does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Maeves before her.

Real people
Maeve Binchy
Irish novelist. Author of Circle of Friends.
1939 – 2012
In fiction
Queen Medb (Maeve)
Warrior queen of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle.
Ancient Irish epic
Maeve Wiley
Character in the Netflix series Sex Education.
2019–2023

Names connected to Maeve.

The number behind Maeve.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Maeve reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.