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Maisy

#745 in 2025Girls' name

Pearl, through Margaret

Maisy has been given to 4,207 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #745 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 365 recorded.

Babies named Maisy, 2025

1 in 9,080

Maisy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maisy: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl, through Margaret

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maisy means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Maisy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margaret and Maisie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,207 girls were recorded with the name Maisy between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 365 in 2025; its best national rank was #745 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,131 in 2020 to #745 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,139 in 2015 to #745 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 Maisy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,080
365 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,400
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#745
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,297 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maisy 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,297 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maisy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maisys were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
42.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,207
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 42.8% of all recorded uses (1,801).

Is Maisy 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
+58
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+386
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+394
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.64×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (365)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#745
2025

Spellings of Maisy

Maisy is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 84.5% against Maisy's 0.09%.

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 Maisy is used

Across 2016–2025, Maisy was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 2,273 girls, against 1 in 6,508 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 33,333).

344 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 2,273
  2. 2Utah1 in 2,381
  3. 3Oregon1 in 2,439
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 2,778
  5. 5New Hampshire1 in 3,571
  6. 6Colorado1 in 3,704
  7. 7Washington1 in 3,846
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 4,000

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.

Geographically, Maisy is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 67% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Maisy around the world

Where Maisy 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
    #490
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2025
    #429
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2005–2025
    #259
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #381
    in 2025
  • France
    2019–2025
    #5,256
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #633
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1998–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Maisy

People whose public names include Maisy, 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.

Maisy in other languages

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

MaiseyMaisie

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

Maisy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#745
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 386
Best rank ever
#745
2025
Peak year
2025
365 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,207
Count in 2025
365

Names similar to Maisy

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

MaiyaMaiteMaileMaidaMairaMaizyMaizieMaijaMaiahMaishaDeisyMaisynMailaMaiMaisieMailyMaiseyMaikaMaiaMailynMaisonMailiMairinMaizey

Names with a curve like Maisy

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

NyomiAspynTallulahAilaZaylaEmilianaSeraphinaEzraPersephoneScoutDenverLeilany

Sibling names for Maisy

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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