Fun Facts About the Name Maverik
- More than 1 thousand babies named Maverik: U.S. records list 1,232 babies given the name Maverik from 1880 through 2025. Even 10 girls received the name Maverik - about 1 girl for every 122 boys.
What Does the Name Maverik Mean?
Maverik is a respelled variant of the given name Maverick, which comes from an English surname. The name's meaning is tied to the ordinary word maverick, which has two connected senses: first, an unbranded calf or other unmarked animal, and second, by extension, a person who is independent and does not go along with the group. The second, figurative sense is the one usually intended when the word is used as a name.
The surname behind it is English, but its own derivation is not securely known. No reliable origin from a known English place name or personal name has been established, so the earlier history of the surname itself is uncertain. What is clear is that the word's meaning comes from a specific 19th-century American cattle owner, not from an Old English or biblical root.
Maverik Name History & Origins
The surname Maverick was present in England and crossed to North America early. A Samuel Maverick (around 1602 - around 1670) was living in the Massachusetts Bay area by the late 1620s; he held land in Boston harbor and was expelled from the colony in the 1640s for his Anglican and Royalist sympathies. The name continued in the family in the United States.
Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803 - 1870), a Texas landowner, lawyer, and politician who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and served as mayor of San Antonio, is the source of the word's meaning. He acquired cattle in the 1840s and did not brand them. Because the unmarked animals could not easily be claimed by anyone, people began calling unbranded cattle mavericks. The term spread through the cattle country of the American West and was established in general use by the second half of the 1800s. From the literal sense of an unmarked animal came the familiar figurative sense of an independent, nonconforming person.
Maverick entered use as an American given name in the 20th century, and the spelling Maverik is a later respelling with no separate origin of its own. The name also appears in popular culture - for example, as the call sign of a character in the 1986 film Top Gun - but such uses are later than the name's appearance as both a surname and a given name.
How Popular is the Name Maverik?
Maverik has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2021. Its best rank was #1,552 in 2021.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | #16,753 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2022 | #16,864 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,955 | 79 | 0.0046% |
| 2024 | #1,942 | 81 | 0.0047% |
| 2023 | #1,823 | 88 | 0.0052% |
| 2022 | #1,660 | 104 | 0.0060% |
| 2021 | #1,552 | 113 | 0.0065% |
| 2020 | #1,606 | 101 | 0.0059% |
| 2019 | #1,696 | 94 | 0.0052% |
| 2018 | #1,613 | 102 | 0.0056% |
| 2017 | #1,774 | 87 | 0.0047% |
| 2016 | #2,127 | 66 | 0.0035% |
| 2015 | #2,750 | 44 | 0.0023% |
| 2014 | #3,193 | 35 | 0.0018% |
| 2013 | #2,932 | 39 | 0.0021% |
| 2012 | #3,281 | 34 | 0.0018% |
| 2011 | #4,605 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 2010 | #3,773 | 28 | 0.0015% |
| 2009 | #5,239 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2008 | #3,794 | 28 | 0.0014% |
| 2007 | #7,429 | 11 | 0.0005% |
| 2006 | #7,258 | 11 | 0.0005% |
| 2005 | #8,820 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2004 | #12,561 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2003 | #9,292 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2002 | #9,060 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2000 | #9,886 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1994 | #9,763 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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