Maize
Maize is given to both girls and boys: 17 girls and 15 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,723 among girls’ names and #6,031 among boys’, #7,670 among all names counting both); 301 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maize by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maize mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maize is “a unisex given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maize?
#6,723 among girls’ names, 2025
Maize rose from #11,496 in 2015 to #6,723 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 10.6 per million.
36 babies in 2022, the peak
Maize peaked in 2022, when 36 babies were given it (26 girls, #5,115 among girls’ names). The 32 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 89% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,723 | 15 | #6,031 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,558 | 18 | #5,358 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,061 | 8 | #9,437 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,115 | 10 | #8,096 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,498 | 10 | #7,933 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,230 | 7 | #10,192 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,597 | 13 | #6,646 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,690 | 8 | #9,331 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,333 | 6 | #11,650 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,503 | 5 | #13,453 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,496 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,818 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 5 | #13,466 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,395 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,342 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,073 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Maize a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 301 Americans recorded as Maize, 65% are girls and 35% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maize: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maize, and how old are they?
An estimated 299 Americans named Maize and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 226 people named Maize (164 women and girls, 62 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 125 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,968 babies since 1880, Maize is the eighth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 891 babies (3.6%), the seventh 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 Maize
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 Maize and names like it
- Compare Maize and MazieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaize peaked in 2022.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maize since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Maize.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maize alive today were born 2013-2025.
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