Macie
Feminine
Macie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 23,472 girls against 31 boys since 1880.
Macie is the plainest-to-read spelling of a name that began as a Norman surname and made the long crossing into English as a first name for girls. It has been turning up in American records for well over a century, quietly, and has been climbing again in recent years. Two syllables, both of them easy: the long A of May followed by a soft see.
How old is the name Macie?
Macie first appears in US birth records in 1882 — 143 years ago. The typical Macie alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 21,000 people named Macie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Macie most popular?
Macie peaked in 2011, reaching #356 nationally. Today it ranks #438, 82 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Mace to Macie
The story of Macie
The name arrived in English as a surname carried by Norman families after the Conquest, spelled Macy, Macey and Massey among others, and it stayed a surname for centuries. American parents began borrowing surnames as girls' first names in earnest in the twentieth century, and Macy joined that group; Macie is the respelling that makes the pronunciation obvious on paper. Its American footprint is broadest in Texas, California and Ohio. Almost everyone who carries it is young — this is a spelling that grew up in the last generation or so, not one handed down through families.
Meaningscholars disagree
Either "from Macy" (a place in Normandy) or a medieval pet form of Matthew, "gift of God"
Macy the surname has two respectable origins that scholars have never fully separated. One traces it to Norman place names such as Macy and Massy, built on the Gallo-Roman personal name Maccius. The other traces it to Mace, an English short form of Mahieu — the Norman French version of Matthew, from Hebrew Mattityahu, "gift of God." Both roads end at the same surname, and the given name inherits both.
How the name formed
- Mace
- Macey
- Macy
- Macie
Related forms: Macy · Maci · Macé
Pronouncing Macie
MAY-see
Stress on the first syllable. The -ie ending signals the see sound clearly, which is much of why this spelling exists.
Nicknames for Macie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1882
- Most girls named
- 2011906 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #356reached in 2011
- Change vs 2022
- +22.3%703 in 2025, from 575
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Macie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Macy in English — spelling variant
- Maci in English — spelling variant
- Macé in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Macies among us
people named Macie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,286 born in 2025 was named Macie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Macie
- #438
- Macie on the 2025 chart
- #321
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Macie went to 703 girls in 2025, but Mazie and Masie are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 979, which makes it the 321st most-given girls’ name of the year — 117 places above the chart.
- Macie703
- Mazie265
- Masie11
About 1 girl in 1,642 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 2,286 for Macie itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Bridgette test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Macie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Bridgette climbed just as high around 1973, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Bridgette's path sketches the road Macie is walking now.
Macie is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Macie is headed
Macie should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Macie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Macie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the way it sounds — an American reader gets MAY-see right on the first try, with no coaching.
- Two short syllables, easy to call across a yard and easy for a small child to say and write.
- On record in the United States for well over a century, so it is a new-feeling spelling with old roots behind it.
- Familiar in sound without being crowded: a child is unlikely to share it with a classmate.
- Sits in a recognized cluster — Macy, Maci, Macey — so the name itself is never unfamiliar, only the spelling.
- Macy, Maci, Macey and Macie all circulate, and none of them is the default. Anyone with this name will spend a lifetime saying "with an i-e at the end," and will get the other spellings on mail and coffee cups.
- Macy's, the department store, is known everywhere in the United States. The spellings differ, but the sound does not, and the association will come up.
- Nearly everyone carrying this spelling is a child or teenager, so it reads as distinctly contemporary rather than as a name passed down. That may be exactly the point, or worth a second thought.
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Frequently asked
- How many Macies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 21,000 people named Macie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Macie?
- Macie is the most-used spelling in US records — 703 of the 979 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Mazie and Masie.
- How popular is the name Macie in 2025?
- Macie ranks #438 among US girl names in 2025, with 703 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Macie?
- About 1 in every 2,286 US girls born in 2025 was named Macie — 703 in all.
- Will my child share the name Macie with classmates?
- Macie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Macie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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