Maisie
Maisie was given to 1,328 girls in 2025, #233 among girls’ names; 12,954 Americans have been recorded with it since 1890 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,200 Americans named Maisie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maisie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maisie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maisie is “a diminutive of the female given name Margaret.”
From Scottish Gaelic Mairead + -sie.
/ˈmeɪ.zi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maisie?
#233 among girls’ names, 2025
Maisie rose from #625 in 2015 to #233 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.26 to 0.83 per 1,000.
1,328 babies in 2025, the peak
Maisie peaked in 2025, when 1,328 girls were given it, #233 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 1,246 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,328 | #233 | 0.83 |
| 2024 | 1,246 | #256 | 0.77 |
| 2023 | 1,063 | #294 | 0.66 |
| 2022 | 917 | #347 | 0.56 |
| 2021 | 781 | #406 | 0.48 |
| 2020 | 766 | #410 | 0.47 |
| 2019 | 912 | #346 | 0.54 |
| 2018 | 628 | #496 | 0.37 |
| 2017 | 595 | #525 | 0.34 |
| 2016 | 541 | #574 | 0.31 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 458 | #625 | 0.26 |
| 2014 | 437 | #654 | 0.24 |
| 2013 | 218 | #1,117 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 150 | #1,499 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,585 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 123 | #1,709 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,845 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,874 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 131 | #1,686 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,754 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 117 | #1,698 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 106 | #1,804 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,891 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,834 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,770 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 88 | #1,928 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 92 | #1,746 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,652 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 64 | #2,163 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 63 | #2,166 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,602 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,331 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,699 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,225 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,637 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,587 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,181 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,247 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,173 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,345 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,990 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,105 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,049 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,267 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,617 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,878 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,613 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,086 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,396 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,074 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,358 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,352 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,100 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,342 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,610 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,153 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,634 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,700 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,794 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,505 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,210 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,256 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,975 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,349 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,968 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,435 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,718 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,704 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,090 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,276 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,071 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,667 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,290 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,096 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,688 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,848 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,681 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,571 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,705 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,807 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,676 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,665 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,444 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,633 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,864 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,897 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,933 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,062 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,440 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,387 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,972 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,730 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,926 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,215 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,698 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,630 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,261 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,659 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,835 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,273 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,945 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,196 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,519 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,702 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,514 | 0.03 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,135 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,451 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maisie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maisie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 113 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maisie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maisie, and how old are they?
12,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 12,954 Americans ever recorded as Maisie. The median Maisie alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 6,276 people named Maisie (6,263 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,405 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 36 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 32 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 114 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 469 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,730 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,830 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Maisie born?
The states with the most babies named Maisie are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 98 | #354 | 0.6× |
| California | 85 | #391 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 71 | #157 | 1.0× |
| New York | 65 | #262 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 59 | #188 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 53 | #348 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 47 | #190 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 45 | #227 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 43 | #168 | 1.3× |
| Massachusetts | 41 | #136 | 1.3× |
Where Maisie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maisie is most over-represented in Washington: since 1910 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maisie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 32,437 babies since 1880, Maisie is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,328 of their 2,385 babies (56%), again the most given.
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 Maisie
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 Maisie and names like it
- Compare Maisie and MazieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaisie peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maisie since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Maisie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maisie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.