Maysa
Feminine · “walking with a proud gait”
Maysa is Arabic for a woman who walks with a proud, swaying gait — the language has a word for it, and it is a compliment.
How old is the name Maysa?
Maysa first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Maysa alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,000 people named Maysa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maysa most popular?
Maysa peaked in 2003, reaching #3590 nationally. Today it ranks #4460, 870 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.
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Where it comes from
From mays to Maysa
The story of Maysa
Classical Arabic has a substantial vocabulary for ways of walking, and mays names a particular proud, unhurried gait that pre-Islamic and later poetry treats as a mark of dignity and beauty. Maysa is the woman who walks that way. Maysan is also an Arabic name for a star. The name is used across the Arab world and reaches American records with Levantine families.
Meaning
walking with a proud gait
From an Arabic root meaning to walk with a swaying or stately step; classical poetry uses it admiringly of women. The root also gives maysan, a name for a bright star and for the walk itself.
How the name formed
- mays
- Maysa
Related forms: Maysa · Maisa · Meysa
Pronouncing Maysa
MY-sah
Two syllables, first stressed. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Maysa
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1979
- Most girls named
- 201143 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3590reached in 2003
- Change vs 2024
- −8.8%31 in 2025, from 34
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Maysa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Maysa in Arabic — same name
- Maisa in Arabic — spelling variant
- Meysa in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Michigan, California, New York.
Maysas among us
people named Maysa are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 51,847 born in 2025 was named Maysa
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Maysa
- #4460
- Maysa on the 2025 chart
- #881
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Maysa went to 31 girls in 2025, but Maiza, Maisa and Maizah are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 79, which makes it the 881st most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,579 places above the chart.
- Maysa31
- Maiza27
- Maisa16
- Maizah5
About 1 girl in 20,345 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 51,847 for Maysa itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Frannie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maysa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Frannie climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Frannie's path sketches the road Maysa is walking now.
Maysa sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Maysa is headed
Maysa should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Maysa beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maysa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with an unusually specific and admiring sense.
- May is available immediately as an ordinary English short form.
- Five letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Maysa, Maisa and Maysaa are all in use and none is dominant in English.
- The meaning describes a way of walking, which needs explaining.
- It is close to Maisie and Mysa in an American ear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maysas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Maysa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Maysa?
- Maysa is the most-used spelling in US records — 31 of the 79 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Maiza, Maisa and Maizah.
- How popular is the name Maysa in 2025?
- Maysa ranks #4460 among US girl names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maysa?
- About 1 in every 51,847 US girls born in 2025 was named Maysa — 31 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maysa with classmates?
- Maysa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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