Maguire — boys' name
577 babies named Maguire in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
64% of everyone ever named Maguire was born in this single decade.
54 babies were named Maguire in 2000 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Maguire
The Social Security Administration has registered 577 babies named Maguire between 1997 and 2023, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Maguire currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 54 babies received it in a single year. Maguire is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 108 additional births since 1998.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Maguire performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 368 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Maguire shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Maguire in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Maguire in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 577 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Maguire at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Maguire popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1997
- Peak year (2000)
- 54
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
577 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2000 with 54 births in a single year.
Maguire popularity over time — girls
108 total births recorded since 1998 (Maguire as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Maguire accounts for 16% of total recorded use across both genders.
Maguire by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 368 births that decade — 64% of Maguire's all-time total
Maguire decade highlights
- Peak decade 368 births
- Runner-up 126 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Maguire's strongest decade
368 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 64% of all-time use.
Maguire by state
Where Maguire concentrates geographically — total births since 1997
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Florida | | 6 | 1.0% |
6 of 577 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Florida 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Florida accounts for 1.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1997–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.