Maizey
Feminine · “pearl”
Maizey is a respelling of Maisie, and Maisie is Scottish: a pet form of Mairead, which is Margaret, which is a pearl. Under a very casual-looking modern spelling is one of the oldest name-chains in Europe.
How old is the name Maizey?
Maizey first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Maizey is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Maizey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maizey most popular?
Maizey peaked in 2023, reaching #2704 nationally. Today it ranks #3130, 426 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Margarita to Maizey
The story of Maizey
Margaret arrived in Scotland in the eleventh century and became one of the country's central names, taking Gaelic form as Mairead and pet form as Maisie. Scottish literature carried Maisie into wider English use in the nineteenth century, and English and American families have kept it since. The Maizey spelling is recent and belongs to the same impulse that gives Kaylee and Everly their endings; it also pulls the name towards the English word for corn, which is a coincidence rather than a source.
Meaning
pearl
From Greek margarites, a pearl, through Latin Margarita; Scottish Gaelic made Mairead of it, and Maisie is the Scottish pet form of that.
How the name formed
- Margarita
- Mairead
- Maisie
- Maizey
Related forms: Mairead · Maisie · Mysie
Pronouncing Maizey
MAY-zee
Two syllables, first stressed, with a z sound in the middle. Identical to Maisie.
Nicknames for Maizey
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
- 1998
- Most girls named
- 202364 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2704reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −1.9%51 in 2025, from 52
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.
Maizey in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mairead in Scottish Gaelic — related form
- Maisie in English — spelling variant
- Mysie in Scots — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Ohio, California, Michigan.
Maizeys among us
people named Maizey are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 31,515 born in 2025 was named Maizey
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Maizey
- #3130
- Maizey on the 2025 chart
- #809
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Maizey went to 51 girls in 2025, but Maisey 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 — 2,321 places above the chart.
- Maisey100
- Maizey51
About 1 girl in 10,644 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 31,515 for Maizey 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 Mayson test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maizey's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Mayson climbed just as high around 2005, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Mayson's path sketches the road Maizey is walking now.
Maizey sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Maizey is headed
Maizey should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Maizey beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maizey in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Behind the modern look is a documented chain reaching back to a Greek word for pearl.
- Two syllables and an obvious pronunciation for any English speaker.
- Maisie is a well-established name, so the sound is familiar even where this spelling is not.
- Maisie, Maisy, Mazie and Maizey are four live spellings and this is the least written of them.
- The z pulls the name towards maize, and that will be noticed.
- It reads as a nickname to some, which may matter on a formal document.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maizeys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Maizey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Maizey?
- Maizey is one of 2 recorded spellings. Maisey is the more common one — 100 births in 2025 against 51 for Maizey.
- How popular is the name Maizey in 2025?
- Maizey ranks #3130 among US girl names in 2025, with 51 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maizey?
- About 1 in every 31,515 US girls born in 2025 was named Maizey — 51 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maizey with classmates?
- Maizey will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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