Meaning not yet researched.
Maisie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,328 in 2025. Its best rank was #233 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Maisie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#233 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Maisie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,328 girls in 2025. Peak: #233 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,328 (2025).
In 2025, 1,328 US girls were named Maisie, making it the 233rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 23 places from #256 in 2024. That is 82 more than the 1,246 girls named Maisie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #233, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,328. For comparison, it was #625 in 2015 and #5,796 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maisie in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 5 babies. In all, 12,954 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 6,101 babies named Maisie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,777 US girls were named Maisie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,328. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,210 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maisie ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #66 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Margaret (1,268,519 babies since 1880), Maisy (4,207 babies since 1880), Maizie (3,050 babies since 1880) and Macie (23,503 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maizee and Maisee are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Maizee (452), Maisee (152).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Maisie in the open dataset we use.
Maisie is listed as a nickname for Margarita.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 9 | #66 | — |
| West Virginia | 17 | #91 | — |
| Nebraska | 22 | #92 | #484 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #96 | — |
| North Dakota | 9 | #112 | — |
| New Hampshire | 11 | #118 | — |
| Montana | 8 | #134 | — |
| Massachusetts | 41 | #136 | #389 |
| Minnesota | 39 | #141 | #400 |
| South Dakota | 8 | #148 | — |
| Kentucky | 30 | #151 | #550 |
| Connecticut | 20 | #156 | #551 |
| Pennsylvania | 71 | #157 | #455 |
| Missouri | 39 | #158 | — |
| Washington | 43 | #168 | #329 |
| Utah | 27 | #170 | #388 |
| Oregon | 20 | #185 | #366 |
| Kansas | 18 | #188 | #707 |
| Ohio | 59 | #188 | #565 |
| Indiana | 37 | #189 | #1,035 |
| Michigan | 47 | #190 | #701 |
| Wisconsin | 29 | #192 | #385 |
| Maine | 6 | #197 | — |
| Arkansas | 15 | #204 | — |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #207 | — |
| Iowa | 16 | #212 | #576 |
| Tennessee | 36 | #223 | #606 |
| Illinois | 45 | #227 | #595 |
| Idaho | 10 | #230 | — |
| Colorado | 26 | #247 | #433 |
| Maryland | 21 | #250 | #515 |
| Nevada | 11 | #254 | — |
| New York | 65 | #262 | #803 |
| Virginia | 31 | #269 | #614 |
| Arizona | 26 | #278 | #525 |
| New Jersey | 30 | #281 | #643 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #286 | — |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #287 | — |
| Mississippi | 10 | #288 | — |
| Georgia | 34 | #312 | #866 |
| North Carolina | 35 | #315 | #1,189 |
| Florida | 53 | #348 | #1,320 |
| Texas | 98 | #354 | #1,004 |
| Alabama | 13 | #384 | — |
| California | 85 | #391 | #799 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #503 | #498 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,328 | #233 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,246 | #256 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,063 | #294 | — | — |
| 2022 | 917 | #347 | — | — |
| 2021 | 781 | #406 | — | — |
| 2020 | 766 | #410 | — | — |
| 2019 | 912 | #346 | — | — |
| 2018 | 628 | #496 | — | — |
| 2017 | 595 | #525 | — | — |
| 2016 | 541 | #574 | — | — |
| 2015 | 458 | #625 | — | — |
| 2014 | 437 | #654 | — | — |
| 2013 | 218 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 2012 | 150 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 2010 | 123 | #1,709 | — | — |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 2007 | 131 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 2005 | 117 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 2004 | 106 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 2000 | 88 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 1999 | 92 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1997 | 64 | #2,166 | — | — |
| 1996 | 63 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,607 | — | — |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,704 | — | — |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,230 | — | — |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,592 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,187 | — | — |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,252 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,178 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,348 | — | — |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,992 | — | — |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,106 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,051 | — | — |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,268 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,619 | — | — |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,879 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,614 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,086 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,397 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,076 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,360 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,353 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,102 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,344 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,611 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,155 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,635 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,701 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,796 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,506 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,710 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,212 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,257 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,977 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,351 | — | — |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,970 | — | — |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,437 | — | — |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,720 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,706 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,092 | — | — |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,278 | — | — |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,668 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,291 | — | — |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,690 | — | — |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,972 | — | — |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,730 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,452 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).