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Maveric vs Mavrick

American parents have registered 1,694 Mavricks since 1880, against 539 Maverics. Mavrick is still ahead, with 73 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maveric against Mavrick, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maveric Mavrick

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Mavrick has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1987 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Maveric had 30 and Mavrick had 48.

Side by side

  Maveric Mavrick
Total US births 5391,694
Most in one year 51113
Babies in 2025 2173
Estimated living today 5401,700
Median age today 79
Peak year 20202020
Best rank 2,505th boys1,499th boys
Rank in 2025 4,707th2,035th
First recorded 19981987
Girls / boys 0 / 5390 / 1,694

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mavricks alive today are over 9; half the Maverics are over 7. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Maveric Mavrick
England and Wales 33

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maveric and Mavrick.