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#Maeve donovan mac

Medb ingen Indrechtach mac Muiredaig, Princess of Connacht, fl.

Medb, Queen of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.

Maeve has ranked among the 1,000 most popular names for girls born in the United States since 1997, among the top 500 names since 2013, and among the top 150 names since 2021. It was the 44th most common name for newborn Dutch girls in 2021. It has also increased in usage in the Netherlands, where it was among the top 500 names for girls in 2014 and again between 20. It has ranked among the top 100 names for girls since 2020 in Scotland, where it was the 72nd most popular name in 2021.

It ranked 218th on the list of most popular names for girls in England and Wales in 2020 and had risen in popularity to 94th position in 2020 in those countries. In Northern Ireland, Maeve was a Top 100 girls' name between 19, and Meabh ranked 44th in 2017. Maeve (in that spelling) was a Top 100 girls' name in Ireland for all but 12 of the 46 years between 19, and Meabh ranked 99th on the list of the most popular Irish girls' names of 2020. Medb is a queen in Irish mythology who is thought to have originally been a sovereignty goddess. It may derive from a word meaning "she who intoxicates", "mead-woman", or alternatively "she who rules". It comes from the Irish name Méabh, which was spelt Meadhbh in early modern Irish ( pronounced ), Meḋḃ or Meaḋḃ in Middle Irish, and Medb in Old Irish ( pronounced ).

Maeve, Maev or Maiv is a female given name of Irish origin. Queen Maeve and the Druid, by illustrator Stephen Reid from the 1904 book The Boys' Cuchulainn by Eleanor Hull.