Mazie

#966 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Maisie

Mazie has been given to 9,797 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #966 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 270 recorded.

Babies named Mazie, 2025

1 in 12,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mazie: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Maisie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mazie means

Mazie is a variant of Maisie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mazie → Maisie → Margaret. The family’s meaning is “pearl”, recorded in English with the source elements margarítēs.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maisie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,797 girls were recorded with the name Mazie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 270 in 2023; its best national rank was #345 in 1893.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,253 in 2020 to #966 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,763 in 2015 to #966 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 Mazie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,500
265 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,060
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#966
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mazie 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 8,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mazie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mazies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mazie was born before 1936 — so the typical Mazie is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,083
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Choose a decade

1920s — 15.4% of all recorded uses (1,511).

Is Mazie 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
±0
No change
Rank vs 5 years ago
+287
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+797
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.23×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
98.1%
Peak was 2023 (270)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#345
1893

Spellings of Mazie

Mazie is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 18.3% against Mazie's 0.32%.

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 Mazie is used

Across 2016–2025, Mazie was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 2,941 girls, against 1 in 9,178 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 33,333).

334 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 2,941
  2. 2Utah1 in 3,571
  3. 3Idaho1 in 4,348
  4. 4Indiana1 in 4,348
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 4,348
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 5,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 5,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 5,263

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.

Mazie around the world

Where Mazie 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
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2013
    #440
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2012–2012
    #907
    in 2012
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Mazie

People whose public names include Mazie, 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.

Mazie in other languages

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

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

Mazie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#966
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 287
Best rank ever
#345
1893
Peak year
2023
270 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,797
Count in 2025
265

Names similar to Mazie

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

Names with a curve like Mazie

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

Sibling names for Mazie

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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