Maisa
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 13 babies a year in England and Wales.
Maisa by the numbers
In 2025, 13 babies in England and Wales were named Maisa. In the US, 7 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 15 babies in 2002, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Maisa
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Maisa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Maiathe great one, mother goddess255 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maisypearl; a diminutive form of Margery81 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maiyaillusion; a form of Maya25 in England and Wales (2025)
- Marisaof the sea; a form of Maria88 in the US (2017)
- Mairaself-sustaining, generous76 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maidamaiden; a form of Maid14 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Maisa
Names that are said the same way as Maisa, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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