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Maverick vs Maverik

American parents have registered 71,375 Mavericks since 1880, against 1,232 Maveriks. Maverick is still ahead, with 5,954 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maverick against Maverik, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maverick Maverik

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

Maverick has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Maverick had 509 and Maverik had 28.

Side by side

  Maverick Maverik
Total US births 71,3751,232
Most in one year 7,147113
Babies in 2025 5,95479
Estimated living today 71,0001,200
Median age today 56
Peak year 20222021
Best rank 40th boys1,546th boys
Rank in 2025 49th1,942nd
First recorded 19571994
Girls / boys 771 / 70,60410 / 1,222

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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