Boy · English
Maverick
Say it: MAV-ur-ik
Meaning
From the English word maverick 'unbranded calf; independent-minded person', named after the Texas rancher Samuel Maverick.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Associated with the 1950s TV western Maverick and the film Top Gun (1986), it rose steeply in the 2010s.
Its wave through time
Rising now
In the United States
- 37,656 babies given this name since 1957
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 280 boys
- 6,153 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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