Entry № 6214 · Greek origin

Maggie Maggie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAG-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Pearl"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (short form)

A name that means "pearl".

Maggie is the English diminutive of Margaret — from the Greek margaron, meaning "pearl." The pet name has been used in English since the medieval period.

Maggie has been continuously in the U.S. top 500 since records began. The character Maggie Simpson (the baby of the family in The Simpsons), the singer Maggie Rogers, and the protagonist of The Mill on the Floss have all carried it. Today Maggie sits in the U.S. top 300 and is rising fast.

Pearl — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Maggie
Transliteration
Maggie
Pronunciation
/ ˈmæɡ.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Maggie stands.

Maggie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Maggies before her.

Real people
Maggie Smith
British actress. Two Academy Awards.
1934 – 2024
Maggie Gyllenhaal
American actress and director.
born 1977
Maggie Rogers
American singer-songwriter.
born 1994
In fiction
Maggie Simpson
Baby of the family in The Simpsons.
1989 onward
Maggie Tulliver
Heroine of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss.
1860 novel

Names connected to Maggie.

The number behind Maggie.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Maggie reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.