Maggie
Maggie is ranked 300th among girls in 2024 (1,051 births). Its best rank was 46th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- #300up 19 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,0510.07% of girls
- Peak year
- 20071,874 births
- Best rank
- #46in 1880
- Since 1880
- 122,023people given the name
The story in the numbers
122,023 girls have been named Maggie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 1,874 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 238 → 300).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 2000s alone account for 14%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 31 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Maggie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7,072 | |
| 1890s | 8,607 | |
| 1900s | 8,289 | |
| 1910s | 11,485 | |
| 1920s | 11,695 | |
| 1930s | 6,805 | |
| 1940s | 5,019 | |
| 1950s | 3,502 | |
| 1960s | 2,327 | |
| 1970s | 3,348 | |
| 1980s | 7,508 | |
| 1990s | 11,099 | |
| 2000s | 16,897 | |
| 2010s | 13,058 | |
| 2020s | 5,312 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Maggie was the 181st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2007 were Emily, Isabella, Emma, Ava and Madison. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Maggie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Molliepeak 1915
- Adeliapeak 2017
- Libbiepeak 1915
- Adapeak 1918
- Addiepeak 1920
- Lillapeak 1918
- Matildapeak 2024
- Hattiepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.