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The first name 
Maeven

Maeven is a female first name.

Maeven – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Maeven in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Maeven in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Maeven by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Maeven ranks at #5,678. That means there are 5,677 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Maeven.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Maeven

Maeven -
at home in

Meeting a woman or girl named Maeven is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Maeven can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Maeven. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Maeven living in one state or another (if your name is Maeven and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Maeven is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00006% of all female residents are named Maeven – that’s just one in 1,656,990! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 9 women with that name. So, if your name is Maeven, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Maeven has 6 letters 
and begins with an M

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.

With six letters, the name Maeven is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Maeven

If your name is Maeven and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Maeven

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Maeven, you can simply say:

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This is how the name Maeven is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Maeven in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Maeven

Maeven

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Maeven

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Maeven is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

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N

Have you ever waved the name Maeven

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

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A
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Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Maeven sounds like this: