Mayci
Feminine · “of Massy”
Mayci is Macy respelled, and Macy is a French village. Norman families were named for the places they held, and Massy in northern France gave England a surname that eventually crossed to America and became a department store.
How old is the name Mayci?
Mayci first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Mayci alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 800 people named Mayci are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mayci most popular?
Mayci peaked in 2025, reaching #3028 nationally. Today it ranks #3028, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Maccius to Mayci
The story of Mayci
Gaul is covered in place-names built from a Roman landowner's name plus -acum, which is how a great many French villages got their names and, through Norman settlement, how a great many English surnames got theirs. Macy reached America and became a surname of some visibility. Its use as a girls' first name is recent, part of the current for short surname-names, and the respellings arrived immediately: Macy, Maci, Macie, Maycee, Mayci. None of them is standard.
Meaning
of Massy — an estate belonging to Maccius
Massy and Macey are French place-names of the common Gallo-Roman type: a Roman personal name, here Maccius, with the -acum ending that marked an estate. The surname de Massy came to England with the Normans and became Macy and Massey. The reading is documented; Maccius' own name is Latin and its meaning is not recoverable.
How the name formed
- Maccius
- Massy
- Macy
- Mayci
Related forms: Macy · Massy
Pronouncing Mayci
MAY-see
Two syllables, stress on the first. Said exactly as Macy; the y and the i change the look and nothing you can hear.
Nicknames for Mayci
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
- 1992
- Most girls named
- 201155 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3028reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +285.7%54 in 2025, from 14
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.
Mayci in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Macy in English — spelling variant
- Massy in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York.
Maycis among us
people named Mayci are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 29,764 born in 2025 was named Mayci
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mayci
- #3028
- Mayci on the 2025 chart
- #502
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mayci went to 54 girls in 2025, but Maisy, Maizy and Mayzi are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 528, which makes it the 502nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,526 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 3,044 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 29,764 for Mayci 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 Morgyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mayci's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Morgyn climbed just as high around 1996, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Morgyn's path sketches the road Mayci is walking now.
Mayci 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 Mayci is headed
Mayci should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Mayci beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mayci in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two easy syllables that every English speaker says correctly at first sight.
- May is a ready short form and a complete name of its own.
- A documented Norman place-name behind it rather than an assembled sound.
- Macy is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected in writing for life.
- Macy, Maci, Macie, Maycee and Mayci are all in use and none but the first is standard.
- A well-known department store carries the name, and the association arrives with it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maycis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Mayci are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mayci?
- Mayci is one of 4 recorded spellings. Maisy is the more common one — 365 births in 2025 against 54 for Mayci.
- How popular is the name Mayci in 2025?
- Mayci ranks #3028 among US girl names in 2025, with 54 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mayci?
- About 1 in every 29,764 US girls born in 2025 was named Mayci — 54 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mayci with classmates?
- Mayci will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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