Maggy
Maggy was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,273 among girls’ names; 518 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maggy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maggy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maggy is “a diminutive of the female given name Margaret.”
/ˈmæːɡiː/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maggy?
#14,273 among girls’ names, 2025
Maggy fell from #9,285 in 2015 to #14,273 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 3.7 per million.
22 babies in 2008, the peak
Maggy peaked in 2008, when 22 girls were given it, #6,277 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,273 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,762 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,687 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,643 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,766 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,460 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,186 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,277 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,128 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,809 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,285 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,190 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,866 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,433 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,958 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,866 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,761 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,277 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,288 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,089 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,150 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,884 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,293 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,611 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,622 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,016 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,802 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,342 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,560 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,396 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,471 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,279 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,201 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,513 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,129 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,259 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,269 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,917 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,580 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,477 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,004 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,151 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,741 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,525 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,669 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,718 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,953 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,224 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maggy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maggy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maggy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maggy, and how old are they?
An estimated 509 Americans named Maggy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,052 people named Maggy (1,046 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 480 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 124,853 babies since 1880, Maggy is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,047 babies (<1%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maggy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maggy and names like it
- Compare Maggy and MaggieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaggy peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maggy since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Maggy.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maggy alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.