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Maite vs Maizey

American parents have registered 4,466 Maites since 1880, against 710 Maizeys. Maite is still ahead, with 193 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maite against Maizey, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maite Maizey

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

Maite has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Maite had 22 and Maizey had 8.

Side by side

  Maite Maizey
Total US births 4,466710
Most in one year 24464
Babies in 2025 19351
Estimated living today 4,400710
Median age today 127
Peak year 20112023
Best rank 1,022nd girls2,704th girls
Rank in 2025 1,192nd3,130th
First recorded 19681998
Girls / boys 4,466 / 0710 / 0

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 Maites alive today are over 12; half the Maizeys are over 7. That is 5 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 Maite Maizey
England and Wales 46182

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