Paisa
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: person from a rural or rustic area
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pˈeɪsɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 2.5M(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.4M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.4M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈37 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Indian, Nepalese, or Pakistani rupee.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Paisa is read(measured from records)
Paisa is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi72%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Paisa in Hindi.
- Spanish9.3%
person from a rural or rustic area
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.4%
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Indian, Nepalese, or Pakistani rupee.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paisa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 8.9M | — | Paisa | 27 |
| PH Philippines | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Paisa | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | — | Paisa | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Paisa | 2 |
| ES Spain | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 8.7M | 45 | — | 4 |
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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Paisa 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 Romansh, weight
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mfe, money
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Britānijas Indijas monētu sistēmas (līdz 20. gs. vidum) vienība un vara monēta vienāda ar 1/64 daļu no rūpijas, 1/4 annas un 3 pai
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Franču Austrumndijas (Pondišerijas) 18. gs. vara monēta vienāda ar 1/4 faraona
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 45 | #48,037 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 45 | #47,706 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Paisa come from?
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Indian, Nepalese, or Pakistani rupee. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paisa?
- A machine transcription gives /pˈeɪsɐ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Paisa mean?
- In Spanish, person from a rural or rustic area
- Is Paisa a male or female name?
- Paisa 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 Paisa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 people named Paisa in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paisa.
- How common is the name Paisa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 people in the United States have Paisa as their first given name, about 1 in 8.9 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paisaThe 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, “Paisa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.