Mayssa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAY-sa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Mayssa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “walking with a graceful sway”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Mayssa mean?
Arabic: spelling of Maysa
“walking with a graceful sway”
From an Arabic word for walking with a proud, graceful sway.
Meaning borrowed from Maysa.
Is Mayssa a girl's or a boy's name?
Mayssa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mayssa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 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, 4 girls in the UK were named Mayssa, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2019, with 5 girls.
In 2025, 45 girls in the UK were given Mayssa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #785, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Mayssa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 1 | #6,173 |
Names like Mayssa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Zainab, Rahma, Amira, Abeeha, Khadija, Huda, Ayah, Ayra, Marwa
Other spellings of Mayssa
Maysa, Maysaa
Names related to Mayssa
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, “Mayssa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mayssa, updated 20 October 2026.