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Maisey

#1,938 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Maisie

Maisey has been given to 1,157 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #1,938 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Maisey, 2025

1 in 33,200

Maisey over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maisey: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Maisie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maisey means

Maisey is a variant of Maisie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maisey → Maisie → Margaret. The family’s meaning is “pearl”, recorded in English with the source elements margarítēs.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maisie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,157 girls were recorded with the name Maisey between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,938 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,919 in 2020 to #1,938 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,112 in 2015 to #1,938 in 2025.

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 Maisey?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 33,200
100 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,938
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,980 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maisey 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 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 22,980 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maisey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maiseys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maisey was born before 2018 — so the typical Maisey is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
41.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,157
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (474).

Is Maisey 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
+289
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+981
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,174
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.85×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (100)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,938
2025

Spellings of Maisey

Maisey is not the most common spelling — Hailey is, with 20.1% against Maisey's 0.13%.

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.

Where Maisey is used

Across 2016–2025, Maisey was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 58,766 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 20,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 25,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in 33,333
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 50,000
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  8. 8California1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Maisey around the world

Where Maisey 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
    1996–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2022
    #625
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    2010–2017
    #355
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2011–2024
    #631
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maisey by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,938
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 981
Best rank ever
#1,938
2025
Peak year
2025
100 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,157
Count in 2025
100

Names similar to Maisey

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

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Sibling names for Maisey

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

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