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Maizie

#901 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Maizie has been given to 3,050 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #901 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 295 recorded.

Babies named Maizie, 2025

1 in 11,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maizie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maizie means

Maizie is a given name.

The naming story behind Maizie

Wikidata records Maizie as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q71063421, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,050 girls were recorded with the name Maizie between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 295 in 2025; its best national rank was #901 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,491 in 2020 to #901 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,396 in 2015 to #901 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.

How common is Maizie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,200
295 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,450
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#901
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maizie 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maizie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maizies were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
41.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,544
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (1,266).

Is Maizie 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
+138
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+590
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,495
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (295)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#901
2025

Spellings of Maizie

Maizie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 47.3% against Maizie's 0.27%.

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 Maizie is used

Across 2016–2025, Maizie was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 3,846 girls, against 1 in 10,310 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

226 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 3,846
  2. 2Michigan1 in 4,762
  3. 3Washington1 in 4,762
  4. 4Iowa1 in 5,263
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 5,263
  6. 6Kansas1 in 5,556
  7. 7Idaho1 in 5,882
  8. 8Indiana1 in 5,882

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.

Maizie around the world

Where Maizie 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
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2012–2019
    #424
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2012–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    2025–2025
    #6,035
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #991
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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 Maizie

People whose public names include Maizie, 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.

Maizie in other languages

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

MazieMaisie

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

Maizie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#901
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 590
Best rank ever
#901
2025
Peak year
2025
295 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,050
Count in 2025
295

Names similar to Maizie

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

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Names with a curve like Maizie

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

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Sibling names for Maizie

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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