Maisa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAY-sah
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,206 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Maisa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “walking with a proud sway”. In 2025 it ranked 2,206th for girls in the UK (13 babies) and 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
What does Maisa mean?
Arabic: spelling of Arabic Maysa
“walking with a proud sway”
Is Maisa a girl's or a boy's name?
Maisa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the UK and 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maisa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,206th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 21,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 159% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were named Maisa, making it the 2,206th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 16 girls.
Half of all the girls named Maisa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,137th in England and Wales.
Maisa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #2,206 |
| 2024 | 16 | #1,881 |
| 2023 | 15 | #1,955 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 9 | #2,794 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 5 | #3,233 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
How popular is Maisa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,837th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 100,000 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, 16 girls in the US were named Maisa, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. It first appears in the records in 1980.
2025 had the most girls named Maisa of any year since it first appeared, in 1980.
Half of all the girls named Maisa in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 48 girls in the US were given Maisa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,626, up from #6,837 for this spelling alone.
- Mesa 32
- Maisa 16
Maisa in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,039 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,328 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,013 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,390 |
Names like Maisa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Zainab, Rahma, Huda, Ayah, Amira, Khadija, Marwa, Aaliyah, Maha
Other spellings of Maisa
Names related to Maisa
Maisie, Maisy, Maysa, Misha, Maisey, Masa, Maisha, Mahsa, Masha
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Maisa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maisa, updated 20 October 2026.