Mesa
Girl · MAY-suh · Spanish
Mesa is a girls' name of Spanish origin, meaning “table, flat-topped hill”. In 2025 it ranked 4,351st for girls in the US (32 babies).
What does Mesa mean?
Spanish: Spanish mesa 'table'
“table, flat-topped hill”
In the American Southwest a mesa is a flat-topped hill with steep sides.
- Say it
- MAY-suh
Is Mesa a girl's or a boy's name?
Mesa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 32 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mesa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,351among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 32about 1 in 50,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 10% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 32 girls in the US were named Mesa, making it the 4,351st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,755th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 47 girls. It first appears in the records in 1972.
Half of all the girls named Mesa in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 48 girls in the US were given Mesa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,626, up from #4,351 for this spelling alone.
- Mesa 32
- Maisa 16
Mesa in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,351 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,440 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,123 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,376 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,715 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,755 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,071 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,886 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,920 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,733 |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,402 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,655 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,365 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,385 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,541 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,901 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,535 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,319 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 20 | #5,994 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,763 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,294 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,386 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,817 |
| 2000 | 31 | #3,978 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,890 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,951 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,622 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,059 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,509 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,666 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,045 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,263 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,031 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,290 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,311 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,946 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,282 |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,290 |
Names like Mesa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Mesa
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