Maisy
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Pearl. Variant Of Margaret.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Maisy
Maisy is an affectionate diminutive of Margaret, descending through the Greek margaron to the meaning "pearl." In Scotland and northern England, Margaret and its short forms gave rise to a whole family of warm pet names, and Maisy belongs to the cheerful, old-fashioned cluster that has enjoyed a strong vintage revival. Its bright, button-like sound carries the same charm that has lifted other antique nicknames back into fashion as full given names in their own right.
The spelling here is the gentlest of several options, and it sits among recorded variants such as Maizie and Mazie, each capturing the same happy two-syllable sound with a slightly different finish. The name reads as playful and unfussy, equally at home on a toddler and, increasingly, on a grown woman — part of the broader taste for sweet, storybook names that feel both nostalgic and fresh.
In the United States, Maisy is a genuinely recent arrival to the top tier: it first entered the Social Security top-1000 in 2022, reached its best rank of #791 in 2023, and stood at #801 in 2024, having accounted for roughly 974 births across that brief, sharply rising span. That fresh, upward trajectory makes Maisy a name very much of the present moment — sweet, retro in spirit, and clearly still climbing toward wider recognition.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Maisy
US Popularity History (2022–2025)
Annual US births named Maisy by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2025 with 365 girls named Maisy (girl rank #745 that year).
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Maisy Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Maisy the strongest states are Utah, Oregon, Massachusetts.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utah | #470 | 58 |
| 2 | Oregon | #489 | 47 |
| 3 | Massachusetts | #580 | 56 |
| 4 | Minnesota | #605 | 84 |
| 5 | Wisconsin | #648 | 67 |
| 6 | Washington | #700 | 51 |
| 7 | Tennessee | #705 | 54 |
| 8 | Arizona | #735 | 46 |
| 9 | Colorado | #746 | 35 |
| 10 | Indiana | #758 | 53 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | #998 | 90 |
| 2 | Illinois | #919 | 55 |
| 3 | Missouri | #852 | 26 |
| 4 | Virginia | #826 | 28 |
| 5 | Oklahoma | #797 | 15 |
| 6 | Ohio | #775 | 65 |
| 7 | Pennsylvania | #771 | 96 |
| 8 | Indiana | #758 | 53 |
| 9 | Colorado | #746 | 35 |
| 10 | Arizona | #735 | 46 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Maisy in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Maisy to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Maisy against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).