Maggie Girl
How popular is Maggie?
#294 girl name in 2025
1,041 baby girls were named Maggie in the US in 2025, making it the 294th most popular girl name.
Maggie popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #294 for girls (▲ 5 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,041 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-22% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #241 in 2015, #293 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2007 (1,874 girls) |
| Highest rank | #46 in 1880 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.8% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Maggie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Maggie family of names ranked #314 for girls in 2025 (#313 the year before), with 1,047 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Maggie | 1,041 | 99% |
| Maggy | 6 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Maggie is most popular
Babies named Maggie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Arkansas: 2.5 per 1,000 (132 girls)
- Maine: 2.1 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- West Virginia: 2.1 per 1,000 (54 girls)
- Mississippi: 2.1 per 1,000 (96 girls)
- Montana: 2.0 per 1,000 (27 girls)
Maggie by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7,072 | #46 |
| 1890s | 8,607 | #60 |
| 1900s | 8,289 | #75 |
| 1910s | 11,485 | #95 |
| 1920s | 11,695 | #170 |
| 1930s | 6,805 | #216 |
| 1940s | 5,019 | #276 |
| 1950s | 3,503 | #382 |
| 1960s | 2,327 | #535 |
| 1970s | 3,347 | #438 |
| 1980s | 7,508 | #264 |
| 1990s | 11,098 | #224 |
| 2000s | 16,897 | #181 |
| 2010s | 13,060 | #225 |
| 2020s | 6,366 | #283 |
Girl names about as popular as Maggie
Questions
- Is Maggie a boy or girl name?
- Maggie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Maggie were girls.
- How popular is the name Maggie?
- 1,041 baby girls were named Maggie in the US in 2025, making it the 294th most popular girl name.
- When was Maggie most popular?
- Maggie peaked in 2007, when 1,874 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #46 in 1880.
- How many people are named Maggie?
- 123,360 babies have been named Maggie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 67,847 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 25.
- Where is Maggie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Maggie was most common in Arkansas, at 2.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.