Given name
Mayte
“love, beloved”
Mayte is a feminine given name. It is used in Spanish and Basque.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mayte is a form of Maite. Maite goes back to a word meaning “love, beloved.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1963. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mayte through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,503
- 0 boys · 3,503 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 249 babies
- 2025
- 64
- #2,713 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −19%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 64 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 2,713 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 18.6% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 249 in 2006. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (16). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,040 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mayte’s family of names
In Basque usage, Mayte has a related form in Maite. In Spanish usage, Mayte can be written in the Roman alphabet as ไมเต.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Mayte
- Mayte MartínezSpanish athletics competitor (born 1976)
- Mayte MartínFlamenco and Latin American music singer and songwriterborn 1965
- Mayte GarciaAmerican singer, actor and dancerborn 1973
- Maytê PiragibeBrazilian actressborn 1983
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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