Majesty
Feminine · “greatness”
Majesty is given to both — 2,568 girls and 731 boys since 1880. See Majesty as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Majesty is greatness in Latin — maiestas, from maior, greater — and it was a Roman legal concept before it was a form of address to a king.
How old is the name Majesty?
Majesty first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Majesty is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,600 people named Majesty are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Majesty most popular?
Majesty peaked in 2021, reaching #1002 nationally. Today it ranks #1758, 756 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
Majesty appears on this list:
Where it comes from
From maior to Majesty
The story of Majesty
Maiestas named the dignity of the Roman state before it named a monarch, and the crime of diminishing it was among the most serious in Roman law. Abstract word-names rose in American naming from the 2000s — Royalty, Legacy, Empress, Majesty — and Majesty appears in the registers from that period in current use.
Meaning
greatness, dignity
From the Latin maiestas, 'greatness' or 'dignity', from maior, 'greater'. In Roman law, laesa maiestas — injured majesty — was the offense against the dignity of the state, which gives English 'lèse-majesté'. The word is ordinary and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- maior
- maiestas
- majesty
- Majesty
Related forms: Majestad · Majesté
Pronouncing Majesty
MAJ-us-tee
Three syllables, stress on the first. It is a homophone of the ordinary English noun.
Nicknames for Majesty
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
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 2021255 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1002reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −20.7%115 in 2025, from 145
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.
Majesty in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Majestad in Spanish — related form
- Majesté in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, Georgia.
Majestys among us
people named Majesty are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 13,976 born in 2025 was named Majesty
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Majesty
- #1758
- Majesty on the 2025 chart
- #829
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Majesty went to 115 girls in 2025, but Majesti and Majestii are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 131, which makes it the 829th most-given girls’ name of the year — 929 places above the chart.
- Majesty115
- Majesti11
- Majestii5
About 1 girl in 12,269 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 13,976 for Majesty 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 Barrie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Majesty's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Barrie climbed just as high around 1961, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Barrie's path sketches the road Majesty is walking now.
Majesty 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 Majesty is headed
Majesty is easing off slowly — about 18% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
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.
Majesty beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Majesty in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Roman legal sense is genuinely more interesting than the royal one.
- It belongs to a documented and current family of abstract word-names.
- Three syllables with a front stress, which holds up against a short surname.
- It is an ordinary English noun and a form of address to a monarch.
- It carries a claim the bearer has no control over.
- It is very new as a given name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Majestys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,600 people named Majesty are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Majesty?
- Majesty is the most-used spelling in US records — 115 of the 131 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Majesti and Majestii.
- How popular is the name Majesty in 2025?
- Majesty ranks #1758 among US girl names in 2025, with 115 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Majesty?
- About 1 in every 13,976 US girls born in 2025 was named Majesty — 115 in all.
- Will my child share the name Majesty with classmates?
- Majesty will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Majesty
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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