Maisie

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.

Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Maisie, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Sadie
• Daisy
• Hallie
• Josie
• Lucy
• Elsie
• Rosie
• Greta
• Hattie
• Poppy
• Lottie
• Nellie

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Maisie is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Korean given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, South Korea, United Kingdom

  Also written Meizi, 메이지, Meiji, Mage

• Russian given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom

  Also written Мэизі

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.

Maisie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Scottish: pet form derived from Mairead , the Gaelic form of MARGARET , with the Scottish and northern English hypocoristic suffix - ie . Gaelic palatalized - r - sounds to English ears like /z/. The name occurs in Scottish border ballads in the form Masery .

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Mazo de la Rocheb. 1879CAnot in their usual nameCanadian writer (1879-1961)
• Stella Grace Maisie Carrb. 1912AUAustralian ecologist (1912–1988)
• Maisie Richardson-Sellersb. 1992GBEnglish actress
• Maisy Gibsonb. 1996AUnot in their usual nameAustralian cricket player
• Maisie Petersb. 2000GBBritish singer
• Maisie Smithb. 2001GBBritish actress
• Maisie Methuenb. 2001GBBritish artistic gymnast
• Maisie Symondsb. 2003GBEnglish footballer
• Maisie Slyb. 2011GBBritish actress
• Maisie Tipangoactress

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).

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.

47 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.

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

What are other forms of the name Maisie?

In the etymology graph, Margaret, Rita and Margarita are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Maisie?

In English /ˈmeɪzi/ (Wiktionary).

What does the name Maisie mean, and where does it come from?

A Scottish diminutive of the female given name Margaret. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Is Maisie a male or female name?

Maisie is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), United Kingdom (ONS, 2024), Australia (Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM), 2023) and Canada (Statistics Canada, 2024).

In which country does Maisie have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Maisie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maisie.

How common is the name Maisie?

In the United States, the national register counted 6,276 people named Maisie in 2020, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.