Maisie
Top 1000
About Maisie
Sweet and sparky, youthful yet long-established, this Scottish nickname for Margaret, Mairead, or Mary, entered the US Top 1000 back in 2014 and has been on the rise ever since, replacing the once popular Macy which peaked back in the 2000s. Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams helped propel the name back into the limelight, along with the that of her character, Arya, while singer Maisie Peters has helped keep it in the charts.
In literature, Maisie is the name of the precocious young title character in the Henry James novel What Maisie Knew, and is also the main female character in Rudyard Kipling's The Light That Failed. Spelled Maisy, it's a popular children's book series.
When Maisie entered the US Top 1000 in 2014 at 658, it was one of the fastest rising names of that year and more recently ranked in at #233. Alternative spellings Maisy and Maizie ranked at #745 and #898 in the same year.
Maisie is a big favorite in England and Wales, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, where it ranked in the Top 100 in recent years, while in Northern Ireland and Scotland, it's an even bigger love, featuring in the Top 20.
Pronounced MAY-zee.
As of October 2026, Maisie ranked #233 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #94.
Editor's take: The name Maisie is a girl's name of Scottish origin meaning "pearl; bitter, beloved, drop of the seas".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #653 | 437 | 244.6 |
| 2015 | #625 | 458 | 256.6 |
| 2016 | #574 | 541 | 305.3 |
| 2017 | #525 | 595 | 344.6 |
| 2018 | #496 | 628 | 369.2 |
| 2019 | #346 | 912 | 543.4 |
| 2020 | #412 | 765 | 473.2 |
| 2021 | #406 | 780 | 475.4 |
| 2022 | #347 | 916 | 558.5 |
| 2023 | #293 | 1,063 | 662.5 |
| 2024 | #255 | 1,241 | 766 |
| 2025 | #233 | 1,328 | 826.2 |
World rankings
Similar names
These 20 names were selected by our users looking for other names like Maisie.
- Mae
- Elsie
- Willa
- Sadie
- Ada
- Madaline
- Cora
- Jeana
- Nora
- Millie
- Margot
- Evie
- Camillia
- Maeve
- Piper
- Esme
- Eloise
- Mabel
- Pippa
- Stella
Maisie on lists
Famous Maisies
- Margaret Constance "Maisie" Williams
English actress
- Maisie Louise Smith
English actress
- Maisie Richardson
Sellers, British actress
- Maud Daisy "Maisie" Gay
English actress and singer
- Mary Josephine "Maisie" Ward
British author and biographer
- Maisie Shiell
Canadian activist
- Maisie Mosco
English novelist
- (Stella Grace) Maisie (Fawcett) Carr
Australian botanist
- Maisie Rose Methuen
Welsh gymnast
- Maisie Mae Roffey (b. 1988)
daughter of actress Julie Walters and Grant Roffey
Maisie in pop culture
- Maisie Douglas
character in "Eleanor and Park" by Rainbow Rowell
- Maisie Cattermole
character in the Harry Potter series
- Maisie Dobbs
main character in mystery series by Jacqueline Winspear
- Maisie Collins
daughter of Adrianna and Ty on TV's "90210"
- Maisie Farange
character in Henry James' "What Maisie Knew"
- Maisie Ravier
main character in a series of movies including "Maisie was a Lady"
- Maisie MacKenzie
kitten in a series of children's books by Aileen Paterson
- Maisie Wylde
character on British soap "Emmerdale"
- Maisie Jones
character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
- "Maisie Raine
" British TV series and its main character
- Maisie
character in British comic strip The Perishers
- Maisie Lockwood
character in "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom"
- Maizy Russell
character in movie "Uncle Buck"
- Mayzie LaBird
bird in Dr. Seuss' "Horton Hatches the Egg" and musical "Seussical"
- Maisie Burke
character from “The Kicks” books