Maisey
Feminine · “pearl”
Maisey respells Maisie, which is Margaret in Scots — the Greek for a pearl, a word Greek itself borrowed from further east.
How old is the name Maisey?
Maisey first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Maisey is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Maisey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maisey most popular?
Maisey peaked in 2025, reaching #1927 nationally. Today it ranks #1927, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From margarites to Maisey
The story of Maisey
Margaret was one of the great medieval names, and Scots made Mairead and its diminutive Maisie. Henry James's What Maisie Knew of 1897 fixed the short form in English literature. The -sey respelling is recent, and Maisey appears in the American registers in current use.
Meaning
pearl
Through Maisie and the Scots Mairead, a form of Margaret, from the Greek margarites, 'pearl'. The Greek is itself a borrowing, probably from Old Persian and ultimately perhaps Sanskrit. The word's route across Asia to Europe is documented.
How the name formed
- margarites
- Margaret
- Maisie
- Maisey
Related forms: Maisie · Maizy · Mairead
Pronouncing Maisey
MAY-zee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Maisey, Maisie and Maizy are said identically.
Nicknames for Maisey
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
- 1991
- Most girls named
- 2025100 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1927reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +17.6%100 in 2025, from 85
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.
Maisey in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Maisie in English — spelling variant
- Maizy in English — spelling variant
- Mairead in Scottish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Michigan, California, Pennsylvania.
Maiseys among us
people named Maisey are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 16,073 born in 2025 was named Maisey
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Maisey
- #1927
- Maisey on the 2025 chart
- #809
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Maisey went to 100 girls in 2025, but Maizey is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 151, which makes it the 809th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,118 places above the chart.
- Maisey100
- Maizey51
About 1 girl in 10,644 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 16,073 for Maisey 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 Christianne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maisey's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Christianne climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Christianne's path sketches the road Maisey is walking now.
Maisey 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 Maisey is headed
Maisey looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 17% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium 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.
Maisey beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maisey in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The pearl meaning is concrete and its route from Persia to Greek is genuinely interesting.
- Margaret is available as a full formal version with enormous history.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Maisie is the standard spelling and will be assumed.
- At least three spellings of the sound are in circulation.
- It reads as distinctly British to American ears.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maiseys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Maisey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Maisey?
- Maisey is the most-used spelling in US records — 100 of the 151 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Maizey.
- How popular is the name Maisey in 2025?
- Maisey ranks #1927 among US girl names in 2025, with 100 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maisey?
- About 1 in every 16,073 US girls born in 2025 was named Maisey — 100 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maisey with classmates?
- Maisey will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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