Mayve is a phonetic spelling of Maeve, the Irish Medb, the legendary warrior queen of Connacht whose name means "intoxicating" or "she who intoxicates". The y spelling makes the pronunciation obvious to American readers. Mayve was almost unused until 2021, then climbed from number 8809 to number 2984 in 2025, its best rank so far, as Maeve itself entered the top 200.