Mazikeen
Feminine · “harmful spirits”
Mazikeen is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,545 girls against 11 boys since 1880.
Mazikeen is Hebrew for demons — mazikin, the harmful spirits of rabbinic tradition — used unchanged as a character name in a 1990s comic and carried into American naming from there.
How old is the name Mazikeen?
Mazikeen first appears in US birth records in 2016 — 9 years ago. The typical Mazikeen is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,500 people named Mazikeen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mazikeen most popular?
Mazikeen peaked in 2021, reaching #941 nationally. Today it ranks #1622, 681 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
Where it comes from
From mazik to Mazikeen
The story of Mazikeen
The mazikin appear in the Talmud as invisible spirits that crowd around people and cause minor harm — the tradition is detailed and often domestic rather than cosmic. Neil Gaiman used the name for a character in The Sandman from 1989, and a television series from 2016 made it widely known. It appears in the American registers from that year.
Meaning
harmful spirits, demons
From the Hebrew mazikin, the plural of mazik, 'one who causes harm' — a class of spirits in Talmudic and later Jewish tradition, mischievous rather than infernal. The word is genuine Hebrew and the meaning undisputed. It is a plural noun, not a personal name, in its source.
How the name formed
- mazik
- mazikin
- Mazikeen
Related forms: מזיקין · Mazikeen
Pronouncing Mazikeen
MAZ-ih-keen
Three syllables, stress on the first. Hebrew mazikin places the stress on the final syllable.
Nicknames for Mazikeen
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
- 2016
- Most girls named
- 2021281 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #941reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −33.0%128 in 2025, from 191
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.
Mazikeen in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- מזיקין in Hebrew — transliteration
- Mazikeen in English — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Mazikeens among us
people named Mazikeen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 12,557 born in 2025 was named Mazikeen
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kacy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mazikeen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kacy climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kacy's path sketches the road Mazikeen is walking now.
Mazikeen 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 Mazikeen is headed
Mazikeen 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.
Mazikeen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mazikeen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Hebrew word is genuine and its tradition is documented in the Talmud.
- Maze is a short form with real currency and no difficulty.
- It is genuinely rare and immediately distinctive.
- The word means harmful spirits, which is worth knowing before choosing it.
- It is a plural noun in Hebrew rather than a name.
- The association with one television character is total.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mazikeens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Mazikeen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Mazikeen in 2025?
- Mazikeen ranks #1622 among US girl names in 2025, with 128 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mazikeen?
- About 1 in every 12,557 US girls born in 2025 was named Mazikeen — 128 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mazikeen with classmates?
- Mazikeen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Mazikeen
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