Entry № 6291 · Basque origin

Maite Maite — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MIE-teh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Basque
Meaning
"Beloved, dear"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Basque)

A name that means "beloved, dear".

Maite is the Basque word for "beloved" or "dear one" — derived from maitatu (to love).

Maite is widely used in the Basque Country.

Beloved. The Basque word.

The name in its native script.

Maite
Transliteration
Maite
Pronunciation
/ ˈmaɪ.tɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Maite stands.

Maite 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.

Maites before her.

Real people
Maite Perroni
Mexican singer-actress.
born 1983
In fiction
Maite
Common in Basque and Mexican fiction.

Names connected to Maite.

The number behind Maite.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Maite reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.