Maidie

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maidie has been given to 156 babies in the U.S. since 1885. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Maidie, 1938

1 in 369,000

Maidie over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maidie: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maidie means

Maidie is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maidie is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 156 girls were recorded with the name Maidie between 1885 and 1938. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1919; its best national rank was #1,143 in 1885.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maidie?

Maidie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1938, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1938: 1 in 369,000; 6 of 2,212,569 births
Among girls only: 1 in 184,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1938: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 255,607 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Maidie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1938 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,607 children born in 1938 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maidie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maidies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maidie was born before 1919 — so the typical Maidie is around 106 today.

Median birth year: 1919; About 106 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 72.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Maidie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1919 (10)
Years since peak: 106; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,143; 1885

Spellings of Maidie

Maidie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 37.5% against Maidie's 0.01%.

Marie37.5%540,077
Sadie10.4%149,681
Mattie9.2%133,079
Maggie8.5%123,078
Margie7.4%106,004
Mamie5.4%77,907
Maude3.2%45,754
Addie3.1%45,361

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Maidie around the world

Where Maidie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2005–2014
#4,684
in 2014
France
1992–2013
#7,541
in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Maidie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,143; 1885
Peak year: 1919; 10 that year
First recorded: 1885
Last recorded: 1938
All-time count: 156
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Maidie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Maiana Maidah Maitri Maiara Mailah Maitte Maiza Maileen Maizley Maize Maizee Maislyn Mailynn Maizlee Mailey Maive Maisel Mairyn Maiyah Maisa Maisee Maislee Mairim Jordie

Sibling names for Maidie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Lovie Hortense Lue Theda Rubye Winnifred Johnie Norine

For a brother

Casimir Edd Ora Verne Haywood Buck Wilber Dee

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