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Maize

#6,723 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maize has been given to 301 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #6,723 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 65% girls, 35% boys all-time.

Babies named Maize, 2025

1 in 195,000

Maize over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Maize over time

In 2025, Maize went to 53% girls and 47% boys.

20022025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Maize: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maize means

Maize is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maize is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 196 girls were recorded with the name Maize between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2022; its best national rank was #5,115 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,230 in 2020 to #6,723 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,496 in 2015 to #6,723 in 2025.

In the United States, 105 boys were recorded with the name Maize between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2024; its best national rank was #5,358 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,192 in 2020 to #6,031 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 Maize?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,723
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maize 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maize. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maizes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maize was born before 2020 — so the typical Maize is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
57.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
196
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2020s — 57.7% of all recorded uses (113).

Is Maize 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
−165
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−493
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,773
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.89×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.4%
Peak was 2022 (26)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,115
2022

Spellings of Maize

Maize is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 39.0% against Maize's 0.01%.

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 Maize is used

Across 1910–2025, Maize was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 424,912 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in —

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. Maize has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maize around the world

Where Maize 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
    2013–2021
    #4,634
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2020–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maize by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,723
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 493
Best rank ever
#5,115
2022
Peak year
2022
26 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
196
Count in 2025
17

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,031
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,161
Best rank ever
#5,358
2024
Peak year
2024
18 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
105
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Maize

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

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Sibling names for Maize

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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