Maize
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- MAYZ
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #6,545 for girls
Maize is a name of English origin, meaning “corn”. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
What does Maize mean?
English: English word, via Spanish maiz from Taino
“corn”
The English word for corn, which came through Spanish maiz from the Taino language of the Caribbean.
More on Wiktionary.
Is Maize a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Maize has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls and 15 boys in the US.
How popular is Maize in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,545among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17about 1 in 95,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 18% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Maize, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002. 15 boys were also named Maize in 2025 (5,859th for boys).
Half of all the girls named Maize in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 58 girls in the US were given Maize or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,374, up from #6,545 for this spelling alone.
In 2025, 53% of the babies named Maize in the US were girls.
Maize in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,391 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,025 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,394 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,517 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
Names like Maize
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Marlowe Marigold Miller Love Blake Palmer Monroe Tru Journee Esme Dream Sage
Other spellings of Maize
Names related to Maize
More English names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Maize: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maize, updated 20 October 2026.