Maite

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Maité in CU Cuba, SV El Salvador.

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●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Maite is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name43K records spelled Maite13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Belgium, Spain, United States

  Also written Maïté, Maité, Maïte, Maîté, Maîte

• Catalan given name12K records spelled Maite2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Andorra

  Also written Maité

• a separate given name1.9K records spelled Maite6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Spain, Belgium

  Also written Maïté, Maité, Maïte, Maïtê, Maitê

• Swahili given name1.4K records spelled Maite7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Africa, Spain, United States, Ecuador

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

  Also written Maïte, Maïté, Maité, Maitê

• Lao given name1.4K records spelled Maite61 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, India, Thailand, Spain

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Mithu, Mathu, มธุ, Maité, มธี

• Arabic given name1.2K records spelled Maite9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, South Africa, Belgium

  Also written Maïté, Maité, Måįţë, Maïte, Mäîţë

• Hindi given name996 records spelled Maite9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, India, South Africa, United States

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Maité, Maitê, Maïte, Maïté

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Maite is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Spanish: contracted pet form of Maria Teresa ; cf. MAICA . Coincidentally, the vocabulary word maite means ‘beloved, dear’ in the Basque language.

  as a word

• In Finnish, any plant of the genus Lotus

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Irish, past participle of maith

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In cnk, to wipe

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In lou, master

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Basque, love; beloved; beloved, sweetheart

  as a word·Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

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.

Over time●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 74 years between 1944–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Maite Blascob. 1938ESSpanish actress
• Maite Carranzab. 1958ESCatalan screenwriter, writer and professor
• Maite Ruiz de Austrib. 1959ESSpanish film director
• Maite Nkoana-Mashabaneb. 1963ZASouth African politician
• Maite Carpiob. 1967ESSpanish film director
• Maite Kellyb. 1979DEAmerican singer
• Maite Perronib. 1983MXMexican singer, dancer, actress, compositor, producer, host, model, business woman
• Maite Alberdib. 1983CLChilean film director (born 1983)
• Maite Orsinib. 1988CLChilean lawyer, politician and actress
• Maite Orozb. 1998ESSpanish association football player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 611 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Maite?

We estimate roughly 85 thousand people bear Maite (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Maite have the most bearers?

Maite is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled maite.

How common is Maite compared with other names?

In Argentina, Maite is the 454th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Maite a male or female name?

Maite 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 Maite mean?

Recorded meaning: From maite (“love, beloved”).