Entry № 6284 · Arabic origin

Maisa Maisa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MIE-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Graceful walk"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "graceful walk".

Maisa is from the Arabic Mayisāʾ.

Graceful walk — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

ميساء
Transliteration
Mayisāʾ
Pronunciation
/ ˈmaɪ.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Maisa stands.

Maisa 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.

Maisas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Classical Arabic beauty-trope
Arabic graceful walk + Arab poetic-aesthetic + classical Arabic poetry beauty-trope + qaṣīda descriptions of beloved + pan-Arab + Levantine feminine naming
Arabic poetry

Names connected to Maisa.

The number behind Maisa.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Maisa reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.