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Maisey vs Maison

American parents have registered 5,390 Maisons since 1880, against 1,157 Maiseys. Maison is still ahead, with 174 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maisey against Maison, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maisey Maison

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Maison has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1988 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Maisey had 100 and Maison had 174.

Side by side

  Maisey Maison
Total US births 1,1575,390
Most in one year 100325
Babies in 2025 100174
Estimated living today 1,1005,300
Median age today 711
Peak year 20252016
Best rank 1,927th girls782nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,927th1,290th
First recorded 19911988
Girls / boys 1,157 / 0815 / 4,575

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Maisons alive today are over 11; half the Maiseys are over 7. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Maisey Maison
England and Wales 1,6831,249
Scotland 1898
Ireland 2949
Northern Ireland 1615

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maisey and Maison.