How rare is the name Maggie?

72,613 people in the United States have the first name Maggie, about 1 in 4,159. It ranks #705 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MAGGIE

#705

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
72,613
About
1 in 4,159
This common or more
64.6%
Who bears it

Of the 72,613 people named Maggie, 72.6% reported their origin as White, 9.1% as Black and 8.1% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Maggie peaked in 2007, when 1,874 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2007
Births that year
1,874
In 2025*
1,041 ▼44%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 123,360 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Maggie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #75. The largest share of babies named Maggie, 23.2%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#757,072
1890s#888,637
1900s#1158,310
1910s#24411,525
1920s#32411,775
1930s#4346,870
1940s#5995,030
1950s#8673,503
1960s#1,1552,327
1970s#9743,347
1980s#6197,514
1990s#51611,105
2000s#41816,919
2010s#52713,060
2020s#6286,366
Before 190113.6%
Greatest Generation 1901–2723.2%
Silent Generation 1928–459.6%
Baby boom 1946–645.5%
Generation X 1965–803.8%
Millennials 1981–9611.7%
Generation Z 1997–1220.1%
2013 and later12.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Maggie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Maggie has been most common in Mississippi (4.4×), South Carolina (3.8×), and Alabama (2.9×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.26×).

95,767 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Maggie

#703 Marina · 72,807#704 Collin · 72,614#706 Jody · 72,569#707 Camila · 72,537

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Maggie, most common first.

#12,594 Maggi · 984#23,940 Magie · 406

Also a last name

As a last name, Maggie ranks #128,411 of 156,621, with 139 people. See Maggie as a last name

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