Maisie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Scottish diminutive of the female given name Margaret
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maisie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 40K
- USUnited States1 in 53K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 276 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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 Scottish diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maisie 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 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Maisie | 17 |
| US United States | 6,276 | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Maisie | 276 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 992 | Maisie | 195 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Maisie | 26 |
| AU Australia | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 264 | Maisie | 82 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Maisie | 22 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Maisie | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 32 | 1 in 23K | 32 | — | 2 |
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; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.3K | #3,373 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.3K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 992 | #44 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 264 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 161 | #18 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2025 | 90 | #56 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2025 | 90 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2025 | 80 | #88 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 47 | #35 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2025 | 36 | #40 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 32 | #562 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13 | #3,373 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Maisie?
- In the etymology graph, Margaret, Rita and Margarita are forms of the same name in other languages.
- 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 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.
- In which country does Maisie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.6 thousand people named Maisie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maisie.
- Where is Maisie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maisie is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- 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.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maisieThe 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, “Maisie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.