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Maisie

#233 in 2025Girls' name

Pearl, through Margaret

Maisie has been given to 12,954 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #233 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,328 recorded.

Babies named Maisie, 2025

1 in 2,500

Maisie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maisie: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl, through Margaret

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maisie means

Maisie belongs to the name family reached through Maisie → Margaret. Its meaning is “pearl”.

Origin, language, and formation

Maisie is used in English.

Maisie comes through Scottish Gaelic Mairead.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margaret.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Maisie is pronounced /ˈmeɪ.zi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,954 girls were recorded with the name Maisie between 1890 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,328 in 2025; its best national rank was #233 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #410 in 2020 to #233 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #625 in 2015 to #233 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 Maisie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 2,500
1,328 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 1,210
0.08% of girls
Rank, 2025
#233
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
1,731 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maisie 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 301%
Grade of 1004%
School of 50018%

Put another way: gather 1,731 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maisie. In a class of 30 the chance is 1%.

When Maisies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maisie was born before 2019 — so the typical Maisie is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
47.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12,261
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 47.1% of all recorded uses (6,101).

Is Maisie 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
+23
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+177
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+392
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.90×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,328)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#233
2025

Spellings of Maisie

Maisie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 44.3% against Maisie's 1.1%.

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 Maisie is used

Across 2016–2025, Maisie was most concentrated in New Hampshire — about 1 in 441 girls, against 1 in 1,583 across all states with data. It was least common in Delaware (1 in 4,762).

21227 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Hampshire1 in 441
  2. 2Maine1 in 524
  3. 3Montana1 in 769
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 840
  5. 5Oregon1 in 840
  6. 6Vermont1 in 847
  7. 7Idaho1 in 901
  8. 8Nebraska1 in 901

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.

Geographically, Maisie is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 34% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Maisie around the world

Where Maisie 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
    #43
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1992–2025
    #11
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2002–2025
    #35
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2000–2025
    #49
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #4,113
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #138
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #164
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    2023–2025
    #88
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Maisie

People whose public names include Maisie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maisie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Maisie. Linked forms have their own page here.

MaisyMaizieMaysieMargaret

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Maisie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#233
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 177
Best rank ever
#233
2025
Peak year
2025
1,328 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,954
Count in 2025
1,328

Names similar to Maisie

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

DessieMaizieMairaTessieKelsieMaiteMaiyaMaiaKassieMaisyMaishaMaileMaisynChelsieMaidaMaiseyGussieCassieLessieMailynMaisonMaizyMairinTressie

Names with a curve like Maisie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maisie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LilithSaylorKailaniLennonMilaniKalaniWynterWrenEsmeAntonellaAzaleaElianna

Sibling names for Maisie

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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