Maggy

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Margaret

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025

/ˈmæːɡiː/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary

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Maggy is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.

  • BEBelgium≈1 in 7.9Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 12Kfew records
  • ECEcuador≈1 in 18Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Maggy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,400 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
192 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
MaggyLatin(measured from records)
마기Hangul(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Maggy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Maggy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa≈5,400 est.≈1 in 12K—Maggy11
FR France≈2,100 est.≈1 in 33K2.3KMaggy192
MX Mexico≈1,700 est.≈1 in 79K1Maggy44
BE Belgium≈1,500 est.≈1 in 7.9K77Maggy31
KE Kenya≈1,400 est.≈1 in 41K—Maggy9
US United States1,0521 in 316K1KMaggy105
EC Ecuador≈1,000 est.≈1 in 18K1Maggy16
CL Chile≈1,000 est.≈1 in 19K1Maggy22

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the mx-cdmx-nombres register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Maggy is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Germany, Belgium

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mäggy, Maeggy, Màggy, Maggý, Mäggý

  • Norwegian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Denmark, Norway

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

    Also written Maggý

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Italy, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Maggi, Магги, Maggì

  • Czech given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Czechia

    Also written Maggý

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1850190019502000Maggy Rouff, b. 1896Gabriele Domschke, b. 1958Maggy Biskupski, b. 1982

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalHi Maggy,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Maggy a male or female name?
Maggy is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
What does the name Maggy mean, and where does it come from?
A diminutive of the female given name Margaret. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Maggy?
It depends on the language: in English /ˈmæːɡiː/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /maɡɡi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people named Maggy?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Maggy in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maggy. After it come France, Mexico, Belgium and Kenya; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Maggy?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,052 people named Maggy in 2020, about 1 in 316 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maggy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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