Entry № 6265 · Arabic origin

Mais Mais — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MIES /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Graceful walk (Arabic)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "graceful walk (arabic)".

Mais (ميس) is the Arabic word for the graceful, swaying walk — also the name of a desert tree (Celtis), often invoked in classical Arabic poetry as the figure of a beloved.

Used widely in the Levant.

Graceful walk. The Arabic of love poetry.

The name in its native script.

ميس
Transliteration
Mays
Pronunciation
/ maɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mais stands.

Mais 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.

Maiss before her.

Real people
Mais
Common Arabic name.
In fiction
Mais
Common in Arabic poetry.

Names connected to Mais.

The number behind Mais.

6

The Nurturer

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