Maelisa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘servant of Jesus’; cognate with Scottish Malise
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Maelisa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 608K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 4.6M
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 608K (inferred from the name graph)
≈93 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘servant of Jesus’; cognate with Scottish Malise. Irish form Ósua/Íosa noted in the entry.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Irish first names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maelisa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 608K | — | Maelisa | 5 |
| US United States | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 7.8M | — | Maelisa | 57 |
| PH Philippines | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Maelisa | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | Maelisa | 7 |
| AU Australia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | — | Maelisa | 14 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | Maelisa | 2 |
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: Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Maelisa come from?
- ‘servant of Jesus’; cognate with Scottish Malise. Irish form Ósua/Íosa noted in the entry. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Maelisa a male or female name?
- Maelisa 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.
- What does the name Maelisa mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘servant of Jesus’; cognate with Scottish Malise.
- In which country does Maelisa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 93 people named Maelisa in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maelisa.
- How common is the name Maelisa?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Maelisa in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Maelisa?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maelisaThe 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, “Maelisa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.