Maysa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAY-sa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,036 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,459 for girls
Maysa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “walking with a graceful sway”. In 2025 it ranked 1,036th for girls in the UK (35 babies) and 4,459th for girls in the US (31 babies).
What does Maysa mean?
Arabic
“walking with a graceful sway”
From an Arabic word for walking with a proud, graceful sway.
Is Maysa a girl's or a boy's name?
Maysa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 35 girls in the UK and 31 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maysa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,036among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 35about 1 in 8,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 18% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 35 girls in the UK were named Maysa, making it the 1,036th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 910th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 42 girls.
Half of all the girls named Maysa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 45 girls in the UK were given Maysa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #785, up from #1,036 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 983rd in England and Wales.
Maysa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #1,036 |
| 2024 | 40 | #947 |
| 2023 | 34 | #1,075 |
| 2022 | 38 | #974 |
| 2021 | 35 | #1,054 |
| 2020 | 42 | #910 |
| 2019 | 27 | #1,285 |
| 2018 | 23 | #1,468 |
| 2017 | 37 | #1,041 |
| 2016 | 30 | #1,209 |
| 2015 | 28 | #1,276 |
| 2014 | 26 | #1,336 |
| 2013 | 17 | #1,798 |
| 2012 | 28 | #1,259 |
| 2011 | 16 | #1,824 |
| 2010 | 12 | #2,234 |
| 2009 | 20 | #1,507 |
| 2008 | 7 | #3,203 |
| 2007 | 10 | #2,354 |
| 2006 | 13 | #1,860 |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 9 | #2,226 |
| 2003 | 7 | #2,574 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #2,535 |
How popular is Maysa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,459among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 31about 1 in 52,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 9% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 31 girls in the US were named Maysa, making it the 4,459th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 43 girls. It first appears in the records in 1979.
Half of all the girls named Maysa in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Maysa in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,459 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,206 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,743 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,106 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,829 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,846 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,039 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,788 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,303 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,656 |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,487 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,846 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,420 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,599 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,602 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,744 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,930 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,646 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,072 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,369 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,703 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,586 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,591 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,614 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,202 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,793 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,158 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,074 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,580 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,615 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,504 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,263 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 8 | #7,982 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,540 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,808 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,208 |
Names like Maysa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hafsa Hiba Zainab Rahma Ayah Huda Aaliyah Amira Khadija Safaa Abeeha
Other spellings of Maysa
Maysaa Mayssa
Names related to Maysa
Masa Maisa Mysha Mahsa Massa Masha Myasia Maysie Mays Masiyah
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, “Maysa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maysa, updated 20 October 2026.