Maisie (given name)

Maisie, also spelt Maisy or other minor variations, is a feminine given name. It is a pet form of the Scottish Gaelic name Mairead or the Irish name Mairéad, which are the equivalent of the English name Margaret. The -ie is a diminutive suffix used in Scottish as well as Northern England English.

Margaret is derived via French () and Latin () from () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Indo-Iranian languages (Persian).

People

Maisie

• Maisie Adam (born 1994), English stand-up comedian, writer and actress
• Maisie Carr (1912–1988), Australian botanist
• Maisie Chan (born 1977), British children's writer
• Maisie Gay (1883–1945), English actress
• Maisie Maxwell (1876–1977), Australian film actress
• Maisie McDaniel (1939–2008), Irish singer
• Maisie Methuen (born 2001), English artistic gymnast
• Maisie Mosco (1924–2011), English writer
• Maisie Nankivell (born 1999), Australian rules football player
• Maisie Peters (born 2000), English musician
• Maisie Potter (born 1997), Welsh snowboarder
• Maisie Renault (1907–2003), French resistance fighter
• Maisie Richardson-Sellers (born 1992), English actress
• Maisie Ringham (1924–2016), British trombonist
• Maisie Shiell (1916–2008), Canadian anti-nuclear activist
• Maisie Smith (born 2001), English actress
• Maisie Summers-Newton (born 2002), British swimmer
• Maisie Symonds, English footballer
• Maisie Trollette (1933–2025), British drag queen
• Maisie Ward (1889–1975), British writer, publisher and speaker
• Maisie Williams (born 1997), British actress

Maisy

• Maisy Barker, English footballer
• Maisy Collis (born 2000), English footballer
• Maisy Gibson (born 1996), Australian cricketer
• Maisy Ma (born 1999), Hong Kong figure skater
• Maisy Stella (born 2003), Canadian singer and actress

Maysie

• Maysie Bestall-Cohen (born 1945), New Zealand modelling agent and fashion show producer
• Maysie Chalmers (1894–1982), British engineer, aviator and actress
• Maysie Coucher Greig (1901–1971), Australian writer of romantic novels
• Maysie Hoy (born 1949), Canadian actress and film editor
• Maysie Webb (1923–2005), British librarian and museum executive

Mazie

• Mazie E. Clemens (1890s–1952), American journalist and WWI war correspondent
• Mazie Follette (fl 1901–1911), American dancer
• Mazie Gordon-Phillips (1896–1964), American movie theater owner
• Mazie Hirono (born 1947), American junior senator from Hawaii
• Mazie King (1888–1968), American toe dancer, vaudeville performer
• Mazie Turner (1954–2014), Australian artist
• Mazie O. Tyson (1900–1975), American geographer
• Mazie, pseudonym of Grace Christian, American pop star.

Maisey

• Maisey Rika (born 1982/1983), New Zealand singer, songwriter and composer

Maizie

• Maizie Williams (born 1951), British model and singer

Fictional characters

Maisie

• Maisie, in the British comic strip The Perishers (1959–2006)
• Maisie, the character loved by the protagonist in Rudyard Kipling's first novel, The Light That Failed (1891)
• Maisie, protagonist in the Rosa Mulholland novel Our Sister Maisie (1907)
• Maisie Dobbs, protagonist in an ongoing series of detective novels by Jacqueline Winspear, from 2003
• Maisie Farange, the protagonist in the Henry James novel What Maisie Knew (1897)
• Maisie, the same character in the 2012 film of the novel, played by Onata Aprile
• Maisie Lockwood, a supporting character in the Jurassic Park film franchise
• Maisie MacKenzie, the kitten in the 1980s Scottish children's books by Aileen Paterson
• Maisie Mac, the same character in the 2000-2003 British animated TV series Meeow! (Gaelic version: Meusaidh)
• Maisie Raine, the title character of the eponymous 1998-1999 British TV drama series
• Maisie Ravier, character played by Ann Sothern in ten films and a radio show (1939–1953) and by Janis Paige in a 1960 telemovie
• Maisie Wylde, in the British TV soap opera Emmerdale

Other spellings

• Maisy Gibbons from Desperate Housewives
• Maisy Mouse, the titular character of the children's book series by Lucy Cousins and its animated adaptation
• Maizy Russell, a character in the 1989 film Uncle Buck

See also

• Maisie (disambiguation)

References