Meave was the #885 girls' name in Ireland in 2025 (3 babies).
Meave as a girl’s name
England & Wales
Ireland
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
England & Wales
Ireland
2025
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#885 (3)
2011
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#937 (3)
2010
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#910 (3)
2009
#5,556 (3)
#893 (3)
2007
#5,201 (3)
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2002
#4,137 (3)
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1996
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#534 (3)
1985
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#456 (4)
1983
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#438 (5)
1981
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#386 (6)
1979
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#523 (3)
1977
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#468 (4)
1976
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#497 (3)
1974
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#300 (9)
1973
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#305 (10)
The tide so far
Peaked in Ireland in 1973 at #305.
First recorded in Ireland in 1968.
How common is it?
about 1 in 7,000 baby girls in the published Ireland list for 2025.
In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.