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Maite vs Maizy

American parents have registered 4,466 Maites since 1880, against 1,600 Maizys. Maite is still ahead, with 193 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Maite Maizy

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

Of the 57 years in which either name was published, Maite for 56 years and Maizy for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Maite Maizy
Total US births 4,4661,600
Most in one year 244106
Babies in 2025 193103
Estimated living today 4,4001,600
Median age today 129
Peak year 20112024
Best rank 1,022nd girls1,884th girls
Rank in 2025 1,192nd1,896th
First recorded 19681995
Girls / boys 4,466 / 01,600 / 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 Maizys are over 9. That is 3 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 Maizy
France 7,22030 Maïzy
England and Wales 46249

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 Maizy.