Maisy
Maisy was given to 365 girls in 2025, #745 among girls’ names; 4,207 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,180 Americans named Maisy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maisy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maisy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maisy is “a diminutive of the female given name Margaret, variant of Maisie.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maisy?
#745 among girls’ names, 2025
Maisy rose from #1,139 in 2015 to #745 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.12 to 0.23 per 1,000.
365 babies in 2025, the peak
Maisy peaked in 2025, when 365 girls were given it, #745 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 351 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 365 | #745 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 351 | #803 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 356 | #792 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 268 | #989 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 249 | #1,022 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 212 | #1,131 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 215 | #1,131 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 167 | #1,353 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 178 | #1,314 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 212 | #1,182 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 222 | #1,139 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 181 | #1,312 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,537 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 97 | #2,010 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,113 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,110 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,305 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,877 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,529 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,837 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,613 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,461 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,592 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,515 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 67 | #2,367 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,355 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,350 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,057 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,364 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,523 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,253 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,293 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,790 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,701 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,452 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maisy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maisy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maisy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maisy, and how old are they?
4,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,207 Americans ever recorded as Maisy. The median Maisy alive today is 8 years old; half are between 3 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,453 people named Maisy (2,450 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,442 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 56 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,100 |
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 Maisy born?
The states with the most babies named Maisy are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,181 | 0.5× |
| California | 22 | #1,174 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #587 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 18 | #584 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 16 | #983 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 15 | #521 | 0.7× |
| New York | 14 | #1,067 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 14 | #499 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #717 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 13 | #781 | 0.3× |
Where Maisy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maisy is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1991 it was given 1.6 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 Maisy 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 20,746 babies since 1880, Maisy is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 365 of their 1,904 babies (19%), again the second 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 Maisy
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 Maisy and names like it
- Compare Maisy and MaisieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaisy peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maisy since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Maisy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maisy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.