The name Maisie is a diminutive of Mairead, the Scottish form of Margaret, which means ‘pearl’. Maisie was long used in the United Kingdom and Australia and became popular at the end of the 20th century.
Maisie is a first name for girls.
The name Maisie 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, Maisie ranks 487. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Maisie. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Maisie.
The name Maisie is a diminutive of Mairead, the Scottish form of Margaret, which means ‘pearl’. Maisie was long used in the United Kingdom and Australia and became popular at the end of the 20th century.
In the U.S.,... Maisie is used since the rise of actress Maisie Williams in the 2010s. Her birth name is Margaret.
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 Maisie 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 Maisie 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 Maisie, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Igloo
Sun
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Maisie
Maisie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
I
S
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E
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.
M
A
I
S
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E
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. Maisie sounds like this:
