Maggie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form of Margaret; occasionally used independently in Ireland in the early 20th century
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maggie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 34th most common given name.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 374(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 2.6K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.3K
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 Maggie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 567 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 374 (inferred from the name graph)
≈530,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Pet form of Margaret; occasionally used independently in Ireland in the early 20th century.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maggie 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈530,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Maggie | 85 |
| US United States | #617 | 72,613 | 1 in 4.6K | 72K | Maggie | 567 |
| HK Hong Kong | #34 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 374 | — | Maggie | 90 |
| ZA South Africa | #556 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Maggie | 68 |
| GB United Kingdom | #649 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 17 | Maggie | 246 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,921as Megi | 1 in 1.1K | 2.9K | — | 1 |
| SG Singapore | #360 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Maggie | 87 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Maggie is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Pet form of Margaret. In the Middle Ages the short form Mag(g) was common, as a result of the early loss in pronunciation of the English preconsonantal r. This is not now used as a given name, but has given rise to the surname Maggs.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
A pet form of Margaret. It was occasionally used as an independent name in Ireland in the early part of the twentieth century.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Maggie är ursprungligen en engelsk smekform till Margaret (→ Margareta) och används i Sverige oftast som kortform till Margareta.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, ) Maggy ['maegi]: weibl. Vom., englische Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Margaret Fieldb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1922-2011)
- Maggie McNamarab. 1928USAmerican actress (1928-1978)
- Maggie Hassanb. 1958USAmerican politician (born 1958)
- Maggie Bairdb. 1959USAmerican actress (born 1959)
- Maggie De Blockb. 1962BEFlemish politician (born 1962)
- Maggie Cheungb. 1964GBHong Kong actress
- Maggie Siffb. 1974USAmerican actress
- Maggie Lawsonb. 1980USAmerican actress
- Maggie Graceb. 1983USAmerican actress
- Chloe Kellyb. 1998GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 79 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 72K | #705 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 159 | #705 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 17 | #215 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 11 | #161 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Maggie?
- In the etymology graph, Rita, Margarita and Peggy are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Margaret.
- Is Maggie a male or female name?
- Maggie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Maggie mean, and where does it come from?
- Pet form of Margaret; occasionally used independently in Ireland in the early 20th century. Recorded by Irish first names.
- How common is the name Maggie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 72,613 people named Maggie in 2020, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Maggie compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Maggie is the 34th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Maggie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 531 thousand people named Maggie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maggie.
What do you want to know about Maggie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maggieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Maggie” — the 34th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.