Meïssa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Meïssa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 91K(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 2.8K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 138K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Meissa in FR France, SN Senegal, US United States and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meïssa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #165 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 2 | Meissa | 23 |
| FR France | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 1.1K | Meissa | 144 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 138K | listed | Meissa | 6 |
| US United States | — | 196 | 1 in 1.7M | 179 | Meissa | 18 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 807K | 1 | Meissa | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Meissa | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Meïssa Gayeb. 1892SNSenegalese photographer
- Meïssa Mbayeb. 1959SNSenegalese singer-songwriter
- Meïssa Binta Ndiayeb. 1984SNSenegalese association football player
- Meïssa N'diayeb. 1985FRFootball sports agent
- Meissa HamptonUSAmerican actress, writer and director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 605 | #1,744 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Meïssa a male or female name?
- Meïssa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Meïssa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Meïssa in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meissa.
- How common is the name Meïssa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 196 people named Meïssa in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Meïssa compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Meïssa is the 165th most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/me%C3%AFssaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Meïssa” — the 165th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.