Majesty
#1,762 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Majesty has been given to 3,299 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #1,762 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 255 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 78% girls, 22% boys all-time.
Babies named Majesty, 2025
1 in 28,800
Majesty over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Majesty over time
In 2025, Majesty went to 76% girls and 24% boys.
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.
How common is Majesty?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 28,800
- 115 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 14,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,762
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 19,983 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Majesty sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 19,983 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Majesty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Majestys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Majesty was born before 2019 — so the typical Majesty is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 43.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,568
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (1,112).
Is Majesty 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
- −261
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −627
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +347
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.25×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 45.1%
- Peak was 2021 (255)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.6% average annual change
Spellings of Majesty
Majesty is the most-used spelling, taking 81.5% of the 3,151 babies given a near-identical spelling.
- Majesty81.5%2,568
- Modesty18.5%583
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 Majesty is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Majesty was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,778 girls, against 1 in 8,083 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 2,778
- 2South Carolina1 in 2,941
- 3Georgia1 in 3,333
- 4Louisiana1 in 3,333
- 5Alabama1 in 4,167
- 6Florida1 in 4,545
- 7North Carolina1 in 4,762
- 8Hawaii1 in 5,000
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.
Where Majesty is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Majesty was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 42,774 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 14,286
- 2New York1 in 14,286
- 3Florida1 in 33,333
- 4North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 5Maryland1 in 50,000
- 6California1 in 100,000
- 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 8Texas1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.
Majesty around the world
Where Majesty 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 & Wales2016–2025#4,867in 2025
- France2018–2025#5,834in 2025
- Canada2019–2024#3,027in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Majesty by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Majesty
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Majesty
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Majesty, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Majesty
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.