Entry № 6186 · Irish origin

Maev Maev — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"She who enchants"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "she who enchants".

Maev is a variant spelling of Maeve, meaning she who enchants.

A fresh spelling of a well-loved name, it keeps the familiar sound with a look all its own.

She who enchants — a much-loved spelling.

The name in its native script.

Maev
Transliteration
Maev
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Maev stands.

Maev 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.

Maevs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Maev.

The number behind Maev.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Maev reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.