Maisa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to walk with a proud swinging gait
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɐizɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 27K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 54K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
74,528 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
to walk with a proud swinging gait
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maisa 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.
74,528 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Maisa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, walking with a proud gait
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In ch, one (in reference to living beings)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, genitive singular of maiss
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dlm, table
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maisa Martinb. 1950FIFinnish linguist
- Maisa Tikkanenb. 1952FIFinnish artist
- Maisa Abd Elhadib. 1985ILArab-Israeli actress of Palestinian descent
- Maisa Korrib. 1986FIFinnish sprinter
- Maisa Tsunob. 1991JPJapanese musician; member from Akai Koen
- Maisa Tuliniemib. 1996FIFinnish cyclist
- Maisa Fathuhulla Ismailb. 1999MVbadminton player
- Maisa Silvab. 2002BRBrazilian actress and TV hostess
- Maisa Kivimäkib. 2002FIsportsperson
- Maisa IkäheimonenFIFinnish association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 75K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 74K | #407 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 52K | #758 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 6.7K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.1K | #519 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 469 | #407 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #37,479 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Maisa mean, and where does it come from?
- to walk with a proud swinging gait Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Maisa a male or female name?
- Maisa 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 Maisa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 75 thousand people named Maisa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maisa.
- Where is Maisa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maisa is densest in Finland — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Maisa?
- A machine transcription gives /mɐizɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- How common is the name Maisa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 74,528 people named Maisa in 2022, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Maisa compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Maisa is the 850th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maisa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maisaThe 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, “Maisa” — the 850th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.