Maisha
#8,159 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maisha has been given to 1,918 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #8,159 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 114 recorded.
Babies named Maisha, 2025
1 in 255,000
Maisha over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Maisha?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,159
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maisha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maishas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maisha was born before 1984 — so the typical Maisha is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 38.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 25.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,918
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (738).
Is Maisha rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −2,775
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,740
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −683
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.81×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 11.4%
- Peak was 1977 (114)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.8% average annual change
Spellings of Maisha
Maisha is not the most common spelling — Martha is, with 40.9% against Maisha's 0.14%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Maisha is used
Across 1910–2025, Maisha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 124,872 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 50,000
- 2New York1 in 50,000
- 3Maryland1 in 100,000
- 4New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 5Florida1 in —
- 6Georgia1 in —
- 7Illinois1 in —
- 8Michigan1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Maisha around the world
Where Maisha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2025#2,138in 2025
- Ireland2023–2023#856in 2023
- France2002–2025#2,937in 2025
- Canada1998–2024#2,463in 2024
- South Australia2012–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Maisha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maisha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maisha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.