Meissa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Lambda Orionis, a star in the constellation of Orion
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: DGE, 2024
/misa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meissa is a female 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)
- Record sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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:
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)Lambda Orionis, a star in the constellation of Orion.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meissa 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); the dz-kaggle-names register. 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).
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2018 | 1.1K | #3,181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 179 | #38,893 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17 | #38,893 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 6 | — |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 2 | #69 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1 | #17,816 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meissa mean, and where does it come from?
- Lambda Orionis, a star in the constellation of Orion. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Meissa?
- A machine transcription gives /misa/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Meissa a male or female name?
- Meissa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2018) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Meissa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Meissa in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meissa.
- How common is the name Meissa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 196 people named Meissa in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Meissa compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Meissa is the 165th most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meissa?
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/meissaThe 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, “Meissa” — the 165th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.