Girls' name · peaked in 1880

Maggie name popularity since 1925

81,358 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Maggie. Half of them were born in 1996 or earlier, so the typical Maggie is about 30 years old in 2026. Maggie peaked in 1880 as the #46 name for girls, and it ranked #294 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 81,358; Named Maggie, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1880; #46 for girls that year
Typical age: About 30; Median birth year 1996
In 2025: #294; for girls in 2025 (1,041 babies)
Girls / boys: 99.8% girls; 81,206 girls · 152 boys
Most popular in: Mississippi; 3.86× its national share

Peak year is the year Maggie made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Maggie births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year on this chart was 2007. Measured as a share of all babies, Maggie peaked earlier, in 1880.

Steepest fall: Between 1960 and 1965, Maggie's share of baby girls fell by 38%, from 1 in 6,220 to 1 in 10,100.
Fastest rise: Between 1970 and 1975, it became 2.8× more common, from 1 in 10,200 baby girls to 1 in 3,570.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Maggie's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Maggie.

Decade by decade

Babies named Maggie in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	5,276	41	–
1930s	6,805	65	#240
1940s	5,019	11	#326
1950s	3,503	0	#486
1960s	2,327	0	#756
1970s	3,347	0	#463
1980s	7,508	6	#265
1990s	11,098	7	#250
2000s	16,897	22	#210
2010s	13,060	0	#241
2020–25	6,366	0	#294

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

30.4% of babies named Maggie from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Z years (1997–2012). The full split by generation:

Where Maggie is most popular

The index compares Maggie's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Maggie.

State	Index	Babies
Mississippi	3.86×	3,706
South Carolina	2.92×	3,237
Alabama	2.50×	3,502
North Carolina	2.25×	5,055
Tennessee	2.10×	3,507

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Maggie's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Maggie.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Maggie (1880).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data