Maisie

Where Maisie comes from

From Scottish Gaelic Mairead + -sie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Maisie
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #1,338 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1992
    Maisie Richardson-Sellers born
    English actress
  3. 2000
    Maisie Peters born
    British singer
  4. 2025
    Peak, #233
    1,328 babies named Maisie — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
Namesakes
  • Maisie Richardson-Sellers · English actress, born 1992
  • Maisie Peters · British singer, born 2000
  • Maisie Carr · Australian ecologist, 1912–1988
  • Maisie Smith · British actress, born 2001
  • Maisie Symonds · English footballer, born 2003

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.