Maycee
Feminine · “estate of Maccius”
Maycee is a respelling of Macy, which is a Norman place name — a family who came from Massy in France and gave their name, several centuries later, to a department store.
How old is the name Maycee?
Maycee first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Maycee alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 2,800 people named Maycee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maycee most popular?
Maycee peaked in 2010, reaching #1206 nationally. Today it ranks #3249, 2,043 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
Where it comes from
From Massy to Maycee
The story of Maycee
Norman families took their surnames from their home villages, and de Macy became Macy and Massey in England. The surname reached America with colonial settlement and is well documented in Nantucket. Its use as a girls' given name is recent, and the respellings followed quickly — Macey, Macie, Maci and Maycee all appear, the last being the one that makes the first syllable unambiguous.
Meaning
estate of Maccius
From the French place names Massy and Macey, formed on a Gallo-Roman personal name Maccius with a Latin possessive ending; the family de Macy took the name to England after the Conquest.
How the name formed
- Massy
- de Macy
- Macy
- Maycee
Related forms: Massy · Macy · Massey
Pronouncing Maycee
MAY-see
Two syllables, first stressed. Every spelling of the name sounds the same.
Nicknames for Maycee
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
- 1990
- Most girls named
- 2010200 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1206reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- −18.6%48 in 2025, from 59
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.
Maycee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Massy in French — related form
- Macy in English — spelling variant
- Massey in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Tennessee.
Maycees among us
people named Maycee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 33,485 born in 2025 was named Maycee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Maycee
- #3249
- Maycee on the 2025 chart
- #822
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Maycee went to 48 girls in 2025, but Maizee, Maize and Mayzee and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 138, which makes it the 822nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,427 places above the chart.
- Maycee48
- Maizee43
- Maize17
- Mayzee14
- Mayze11
- Maise5
About 1 girl in 11,647 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 33,485 for Maycee 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 Tashia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maycee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tashia climbed just as high around 1980, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tashia's path sketches the road Maycee is walking now.
Maycee 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 Maycee is headed
Maycee 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.
Maycee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maycee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Norman place-name origin behind a very current sound.
- May sits inside it as an old, plain English short form.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Macy is by far the standard spelling and will be written for her constantly.
- The department store is the first association for most Americans.
- Macey, Maci, Macie and Maycee are four live spellings of one name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maycees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,800 people named Maycee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Maycee?
- Maycee is the most-used spelling in US records — 48 of the 138 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Maizee, Maize, Mayzee, Mayze and Maise.
- How popular is the name Maycee in 2025?
- Maycee ranks #3249 among US girl names in 2025, with 48 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maycee?
- About 1 in every 33,485 US girls born in 2025 was named Maycee — 48 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maycee with classmates?
- Maycee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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