Entry № 6258 · Persian origin

Mahsa Mahsa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Moonlike"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "moonlike".

Mahsa is a name of Persian origin, meaning moonlike.

Moonlike — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

مهسا
Transliteration
Mahsā
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑː.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mahsa stands.

Mahsa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mahsas before her.

Real people
Mahsa Amini
Iranian woman whose death sparked the 2022 protests.
1999 – 2022
In fiction
Mahsa
Common in Persian fiction.

Names connected to Mahsa.

The number behind Mahsa.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mahsa reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.