Maisie

Maisie is a Scottish diminutive of Margaret, which comes through Latin from the Greek margarites, meaning ‘pearl’. It developed in Scotland as one of several pet forms of Margaret, alongside Maggie. The name has been used in literature, notably in Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear, the first in a series of mystery novels about a psychologist and investigator in London after the First World War, and earlier in Henry James’s novel What Maisie Knew. The English actress Maisie Williams is a well-known bearer.