Name: Maeve
Gender: Female
Usage: Maeve, of scottish-gaelic origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Maeve are in general originating from Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Maeve is: Intoxicating, Goddess of song.
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Numerology of the first name Maeve: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 1. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: individualistic, determined, pioneering, bold, athletic, independent, active, self-confident.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Determined
Ruling planet: Sun
Colors: Yellow, Orange, Gold
Gemstones: Topaz, Amber
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The name Maeve is ranked on the 6,142nd position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 47100 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Maeve has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Maeve for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Maeve is a first name of Irish origin. In Irish Gaelic, the name "Medbh" or "Méadhbh" means "she who intoxicates." It is rooted in the Irish legend of Queen Maeve or Medb, one of the main protagonists of the early Irish legend Táin Bó Cúailnge. It is also associated with the fairy queen Queen Mab of Irish and English legend. Other spellings include: Meave, Moibh, Meadhbh, and Mabh.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Meadhbh, an ancient Celtic name meaning ‘intoxicating, she who makes drunk’. It is borne by the Queen of Connacht in the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailgne, ‘the Cattle Raid of Cooley’. In this, Meadhbh leads a raid on Ulster in order to seize the Brown Bull of Cooley, but she is repulsed single-handed by the hero Cuchulain. The historical events underlying the epic probably took place in about the Ist century AD. Shakespeare's Queen Mab, ‘the fairy’s midwife' (Romeo and Juliet I. iv. 53), may owe her name, if nothing else, to the legendary Queen of Connacht.
Variants: Mave (also an informal short form of Mavis), Meave.
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