Maisie, also spelt Maisy or other minor variations, is a feminine

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. It is the

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of the

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name

Mairead Mairead, also spelt Maighread, is a feminine given name, the Scottish Gaelic equivalent of Margaret. The Irish form is spelt Mairéad, Máiréad, Maighréad, or Máighréad. Maisie is the pet form of Mairead. Margaret is derived via French () ...

or the Irish name Mairéad, which are the equivalent of the English name

Margaret Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Iranian languages, Old Iranian. It has been an English language, English name since the 11th century, and remained popular thro ...

. The ''-ie'' is a

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used in Scottish as well as

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. Margaret is derived via French () and Latin () from () meaning "

pearl A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle (mollusc), mantle) of a living Exoskeleton, shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pear ...

". The Greek is borrowed from

Indo-Iranian languages The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages or collectively the Aryan languages) constitute the largest branch of the Indo-European language family. They include over 300 languages, spoken by around 1.7 billion speakers ...

(Persian).

People

Maisie

Maisie Adam Maisie Elizabeth Adam (born 24 January 1994) is an English stand-up comedy, stand-up comedian. Early life Maisie Adam was born on 24 January 1994. She grew up in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, with her parents Phillip and Jill Adam, and her younge ...

(born 1994), English stand-up comedian, writer and actress * Maisie Carr (1912–1988), Australian botanist * Maisie Gay (1883–1945), English actress * Maisie Maxwell (1876–1977), Australian film actress *

Maisie McDaniel Maisie McDaniel (28 October 1939 – 28 June 2008) was an Irish country and showband singer and the mother of Lisa Stanley. Early life and family Maisie McDaniel was born Mary Anne McDaniel in Kensington, London, England on 28 October 1939. H ...

(1939–2008), Irish singer * Maisie Methuen (born 2001), English artistic gymnast *

Maisie Mosco Maisie Mosco (7 December 1924 – 31 October 2011) was an English writer. She was born as Maisie Gottlieb in Oldham, northeast of Manchester, England, on 7 December 1924, the eldest of three children. Her parents were of Latvian Jewish and Vie ...

(1924–2011), English writer * Maisie Nankivell (born 1999), Australian rules football player *

Maisie Peters Maisie Hannah Peters (born 28 May 2000) is an English singer-songwriter. She began her professional career independently, releasing two singles, "Place We Were Made" and "Birthday". In 2018, she signed with Atlantic Records, releasing two EPs a ...

(born 2000), English musician *

Maisie Potter Maisie Potter (born 15 May 1997) is a Welsh snowboarder, specialised in boardercross, from Bangor, Gwynedd, Bangor. Beginning in the 2016–17 FIS Snowboard World Cup#Snowboard Cross 2, 2016-2017 season, her best result was a quarter final appeara ...

(born 1997), Welsh snowboarder * Maisie Renault (1907–2003), French resistance fighter *

Maisie Richardson-Sellers Maisie Richardson-Sellers is a British actress and director. She first gained recognition for her role as Rebekah Mikaelson / Eva Sinclair on The CW series '' The Originals''. She has since gained wider recognition for her starring roles as Kat ...

(born 1992), English actress * Maisie Ringham (1924–2016), British trombonist * Maisie Shiell (1916–2008), Canadian anti-nuclear activist *

Maisie Smith Maisie Louise Collender Smith (born 9 July 2001) is an English actress and singer. She appeared in the feature film ''The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 film), The Other Boleyn Girl'' (2008) and played the regular role of Tiffany Butcher in the BBC O ...

(born 2001), English actress * Maisie Summers-Newton (born 2002), British swimmer * Maisie Symonds, English footballer * Maisie Trollette (born 1933), British drag queen * Maisie Ward (1889–1975), British writer, publisher and speaker *

Maisie Williams Margaret Constance "Maisie" Williams (born 15 April 1997) is an English actress. Williams made her acting debut in 2011 as Arya Stark, a lead character in the HBO epic medieval fantasy television series ''Game of Thrones'' (2011–2019). She g ...

(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 Maisy Stella (born December 13, 2003) is a Canadian singer and actress. She is known for her role as country music singer Daphne Conrad on the musical television series ''Nashville (2012 TV series), Nashville'' (2012–2018). In 2017, she releas ...

(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 Maysie Hoy is a Canadian film editor and actress. Hoy has a brother, William Hoy, who is also a film editor. Life Hoy grew up in Canada, and moved to San Francisco to study improvisational theatre. She took up the role of artistic director at ...

(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 Mazie Keiko Hirono (; Japanese name: , ; born November 3, 1947) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2013 as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senate, United States senator from Hawaii. A member of the ...

(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 Maisey Rika is a New Zealand singer, songwriter and composer, performing in both English and Māori language, Māori. Her five original albums have each reached the Top 40 in the Official New Zealand Music Chart. She was named an Arts Foundation ...

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

Maizie

Maizie Williams Maizie Ursula Williams (born 25 March 1951) is a British model, dancer and singer who became one of the original members of the successful 1970s disco music group Boney M. Though she did not sing on the studio recordings of their songs, she ...

(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 ''The Light That Failed'' is the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling, first published in ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine'' in January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events through ...

'' (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 ''What Maisie Knew'' is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in '' The Chap-Book'' and (revised and abridged) in the ''New Review'' in 1897 and then as a book later that year. It tells the story of the sensitive daughter of divo ...

'' (1897) **Maisie, the same character in the 2012 film of the novel, played by Onata Aprile *

Maisie Lockwood Maisie Lockwood is a fictional Character (arts), character in the ''Jurassic Park'' franchise. She is introduced in the fifth film, ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'' (2018), which is also the second installment in the ''Jurassic World'' trilogy. ...

, 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! ''Meeow!'' (Gaelic version: ''Meusaidh'') is a 2000 Scottish animated children's series based on the Maisie MacKenzie books by Aileen Paterson, and produced simultaneously in English and Gaelic versions. The series is about a young cat named M ...

'' (Gaelic version: ''Meusaidh'') *

Maisie Raine ''Maisie Raine'' is a British television crime drama series, first broadcast on BBC One, that ran from 28 July 1998 to 9 July 1999. Pauline Quirke stars as the eponymous title character, an unorthodox detective whose hands on yet down-to-earth a ...

, the title character of the eponymous 1998-1999 British TV drama series *

Maisie Ravier Maisie Ravier is a fictional character, best known as the leading character of ten American films (1939–1947), the ''Maisie'' films, and the radio show '' The Adventures of Maisie'' (broadcast 1945–1947, 1949–1953). In these, she was played ...

, character played by Ann Sothern in ten films and a radio show (1939–1953) and by Janis Paige in a 1960 telemovie *

Maisie Wylde Maisie Foster (also Wylde) is a fictional character from the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'', played by Alice Coulthard. The character was introduced by series producer Anita Turner and first appeared in 2009. It was announced on 30 June 201 ...

, 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 Elizabeth "Lucy" Cousins (born 1964) is a British author and illustrator of children's books. She is best known for her books featuring Maisy Mouse, referred to as the ''Maisy Series'' published from the 1990s onwards, from which the TV series ...

and its animated adaptation *Maizy Russell, a character in the 1989 film ''

Uncle Buck ''Uncle Buck'' is a 1989 American comedy film written and directed by John Hughes. It stars John Candy and Amy Madigan with Jean Louisa Kelly, Laurie Metcalf, Jay Underwood, Macaulay Culkin, Gaby Hoffmann, Elaine Bromka, and Garrett M. B ...

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