As a diminutive of Margaret, Maggie means ‘pearl’. It is derived from the Greek word ‘margarites’. Maggie can also be nickname for persons who are named Magdalena or Magnolia.
Maggie is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Maggie isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Maggie ranks 239. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 8 were named Maggie. In the entire USA, approximately 92,729 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Maggie. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
As a diminutive of Margaret, Maggie means ‘pearl’. It is derived from the Greek word ‘margarites’. Maggie can also be nickname for persons who are named Magdalena or Magnolia.
What is a diminutive? A diminutive is a root word that has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of an object, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Maggie is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Maggie for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Maggie is therefore one of the 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Maggie is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 girls' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: With #46 Maggie has never been more popular than back in 1880.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Maggie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 1,068 babies were named Maggie in the USA in 2022, ranking it #273 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 1970, when it was only ranked #774 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 172 girls were named Maggie.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Maggie is one of them. However, Maggie is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Mississippi seem to particularly fancy this name – the 5,303 women called Maggie who live here are 0,275% of all female residents and push their name up to #83, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Mississippi.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Maggie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Maggie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Maggie, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Maggie
Maggie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Maggie sounds like this:
