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Maysa

#4,516 in 2025Girls' name

Proud bearing, walking with a proud gait

Maysa has been given to 959 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #4,516 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Maysa, 2025

1 in 107,000

Maysa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maysa: meaning, origin, and history

Proud bearing, walking with a proud gait

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maysa means

Maysa means “proud bearing, walking with a proud gait”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 959 girls were recorded with the name Maysa between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2011; its best national rank was #3,632 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,002 in 2020 to #4,516 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,559 in 2015 to #4,516 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Maysa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,516
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maysa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maysa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maysas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maysa was born before 2011 — so the typical Maysa is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
959
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (357).

Is Maysa 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
−253
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,486
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+43
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.1%
Peak was 2011 (43)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,632
2002

Spellings of Maysa

Maysa is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 26.2% against Maysa's 0.04%.

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 Maysa is used

Across 1910–2025, Maysa was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 511,899 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Minnesota1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6New York1 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. Maysa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maysa around the world

Where Maysa 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 & Wales
    1998–2025
    #983
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2025
    #2,948
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maysa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,516
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,486
Best rank ever
#3,632
2002
Peak year
2011
43 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
959
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Maysa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Maysa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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