Mais
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAYS
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Mais is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “proud, swaying walk”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Mais mean?
Arabic: Arabic mays
“proud, swaying walk”
From Arabic mays, describing a graceful, proudly swaying walk.
Is Mais a girl's or a boy's name?
Mais is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mais in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Mais, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2014, with 5 girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Mais in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 1 | #6,685 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 1 | #5,182 |
Names like Mais
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Ayah, Zainab, Noor, Nusaybah, Hafsa, Khadija, Maya, Hiba, Amira, Ayla, Abeeha
Names related to Mais
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mais: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mais, updated 20 October 2026.