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I think it looks really cute but the word maid obviously doesnt make a great name.

Its cute for a nickname but not as a full name. I think Sadie suits a full name better than this. Not sure about Maisie / Maisy, but I think even them make a better full name

Never heard of it till today.
No, it's not a good name. It's like a nn for a servant, the way the cook (especially the cooks at lumber camps and on cattle drives, if you read stories set in those places) so often was called Cookie, whether it was a male or a female cook.

Wasn’t that the name of a character in Gosford Park? Too close to “maid” for me.

No, I don't. I don't believe it was ever related to Maid (m, Pakistani): more likely to be a nn for 'maiden', though probably not for 'female servant'. Or perhaps it's a lengthening of May. Come to think of it, it also sounds a bit like the emergency call: Mayday, which would have been horribly familiar in WWII and might have hastened the name's decline, along with the fall in popularity of maidenliness in general.

It's cute.

I definitely like it. I think it's better than Maisie, actually.

Not sure, especially the maid part, prefer Maisie