Maisie ranks at #306 with 379 entries, and it sits in the modern-vintage-female register that has reshaped pet naming over the last decade. The British-coded warmth of the name has been a steady draw, particularly for owners reaching for something slightly old-fashioned without committing to a hard grandmother register.
The vintage-revival pattern
Maisie clusters with Georgie, Millie, Sadie, and Pippa in the warm-British-female register. These names share a slightly cottagecore, slightly tea-and-biscuits texture that has come into fashion as part of the broader vintage-name revival. Pet naming usually leads baby charts on these names by a few years.
The Game of Thrones layer
Maisie Williams (born 1997) starring as Arya Stark in Game of Thrones (2011-2019) gave the name a specific generational anchor for millennial and Gen Z owners. The reading rarely surfaces explicitly in naming choices but does pull a cluster of fan-aligned owners toward the name.
Sound and breed fit
The two-syllable shape (MAY-zee) has a soft front and a sing-out ending, beautiful for indoor calling. Maisie lands on small-to-medium soft-coated breeds at higher rates than large ones: Cavaliers, Cocker Spaniels, doodles, Bichons, and small fluffy mixed breeds in particular. The name reads less natural on guard or working breeds where harder female names carry better. The Maisie baby name page shows the name climbing on the SSA chart since the early 2010s.