Maëva
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maëva is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In French Guiana it is the 33rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Tahitian maeva (“welcome”).
- FRFrance1 in 1.4K◐
- BEBelgium1 in 4.5K
- CACanada1 in 16K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈50K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 302 ●
- 1 in 1.4K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
142K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maeva in FR France, CA Canada, BE Belgium and 24 more and Maèva in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
From Tahitian maeva (“welcome”).
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #296 | 49,110 | 133K rec. | 1 in 1.4K | 49K | Maeva | 302 |
| CA Canada | — | 5,368 | 220 rec. | — | 6 | Maeva | 37 |
| BE Belgium | #558 | 3,472 | 1.2K rec. | — | 14 | Maeva | 36 |
| US United States | — | 783 | 2.2K rec. | 1 in 425K | 783 | Maeva | 106 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #202 | 716 | 21 rec. | — | 5 | Maeva | 6 |
| MQ Martinique | #234 | 648 | 26 rec. | — | 5 | Maeva | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 567 | 279 rec. | — | 57 | Maeva | 38 |
| AU Australia | — | 503 | 498 rec. | — | 3 | Maeva | 47 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 357 | 263 rec. | — | — | Maeva | 44 |
| CL Chile | — | 349 | 20 rec. | — | 3 | Maeva | 16 |
| CM Cameroon | #344 | 296 | 326 rec. | — | — | Maeva | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 288 | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 174K | 288 | Maeva | 46 |
Roughly 49K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 1.4K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
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Languages●
- French32K99%
- English801%
- Indonesian801%
- Spanish331%
- Dutch321%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 32,221 | 99% |
| English | 80 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 80 | 1% |
| Spanish | 33 | 1% |
| Dutch | 32 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1996 | 10 |
| 1997 | 13 |
| 1998 | 14 |
| 1999 | 16 |
| 2000 | 18 |
| 2001 | 21 |
| 2002 | 50 |
| 2003 | 61 |
| 2004 | 59 |
| 2005 | 50 |
| 2006 | 67 |
| 2007 | 49 |
| 2008 | 67 |
| 2009 | 45 |
| 2010 | 46 |
| 2011 | 35 |
| 2012 | 26 |
| 2013 | 37 |
| 2014 | 32 |
| 2015 | 27 |
| 2016 | 36 |
| 2017 | 39 |
| 2018 | 41 |
| 2019 | 31 |
| 2020 | 36 |
| 2021 | 18 |
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2023 | 21 |
| 2024 | 14 |
BE Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) — 30 years between 1995–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Maëva Pasqualib. 1953FRFrench actress
- Maëva Guillermeb. 1988FRFrench handball player
- Mava Choub. 1989CHnot in their usual nameSwiss influencer
- Maëva Orléb. 1991FRFrench volleyball player
- Maëva Charbonnierb. 1991FRFrench synchronized swimmer
- Maëva Contionb. 1992FRFrench athletics competitor
- Maëva Couckeb. 1994FRFrench model, Miss France 2018
- Maëva Calvezb. 1996FRcyclist
- Maëva Djaldi-Tabdib. 1998FRFrench basketball player (born 1998)
- Maëva Squibanb. 2002FRFrench cyclist
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 17 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 117 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Maëva?
- We estimate roughly 50 thousand people bear Maëva (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Maëva have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 49 thousand people bear Maëva in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled maeva.
- How common is Maëva compared with other names?
- In France, Maëva is the 296th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Maëva a male or female name?
- Maëva 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.
- What does the name Maëva mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Tahitian maeva (“welcome”).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Maëva” — the 296th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.