Maggie

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled מגי in IL Israel, FR France, Maggi in CH Switzerland and Мэгги in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Maggie is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name56K records spelled Maggie23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Mexico, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Maggië, Maggîe, Mäggie, Mâggie, Mäggiê

• Indonesian given name3.7K records spelled Maggie3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Mâggiè

• Greek given name1.2K records spelled Maggie3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

  Also written Μάγκι, Μαγκι

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Maggie is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Pet form of Margaret. In the Middle Ages the short form Mag(g) was common, as a result of the early loss in pronunciation of the English preconsonantal r. This is not now used as a given name, but has given rise to the surname Maggs.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• A pet form of Margaret. It was occasionally used as an independent name in Ireland in the early part of the twentieth century.

  as a name·Irish first names

• In English, A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Maggie är ursprungligen en engelsk smekform till Margaret (→ Margareta) och används i Sverige oftast som kortform till Margareta.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In German, ) Maggy ['maegi]: weibl. Vom., englische Koseform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Margaret Fieldb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1922-2011)
• Maggie McNamarab. 1928USAmerican actress (1928-1978)
• Maggie Hassanb. 1958USAmerican politician (born 1958)
• Maggie Bairdb. 1959USAmerican actress (born 1959)
• Maggie De Blockb. 1962BEFlemish politician (born 1962)
• Maggie Cheungb. 1964GBHong Kong actress
• Maggie Siffb. 1974USAmerican actress
• Maggie Lawsonb. 1980USAmerican actress
• Maggie Graceb. 1983USAmerican actress
• Chloe Kellyb. 1998GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 769 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Maggie?

We estimate roughly 81 thousand people bear Maggie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Maggie have the most bearers?

We estimate about 72 thousand people bear Maggie in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled maggie.

How common is Maggie compared with other names?

In the United States, Maggie is the 629th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Maggie a male or female name?

Maggie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Maggie mean?

Recorded meaning: Pet form of Margaret; occasionally used independently in Ireland in the early 20th century.