Maggy

Where Maggy comes from

The dictionaries list Maggy as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Margaret — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1963
    First appearance
    #6,592 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1999
    Peak, #5,661
    18 babies named Maggy — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #11,020.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Maggy hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.