Maisa
Maisa was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,016 among girls’ names; 263 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maisa mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Maisa is “a female given name”
A diminutive of names like Maria, Maija-Liisa, Marja-Liisa and Mailis.
/ˈmɑi̯sɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maisa?
#7,016 among girls’ names, 2025
Maisa rose from #18,122 in 2015 to #7,016 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 10.0 per million.
16 babies in 2025, the peak
Maisa peaked in 2025, when 16 girls were given it, #7,016 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 12 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,016 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,748 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,838 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,408 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,774 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,464 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,035 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,958 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,568 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,122 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,195 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,721 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,439 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,044 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,192 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,309 | 6.9 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,533 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,169 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,310 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,838 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,289 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,629 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,725 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,585 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,827 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,870 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,312 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,024 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,725 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,413 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maisa, and how old are they?
An estimated 260 Americans named Maisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 593 people named Maisa (582 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 200 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,616 babies since 1880, Maisa is the seventh most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 1,909 babies (<1%), again the seventh most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maisa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maisa and names like it
- Compare Maisa and MaisieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaisa peaked in 2025.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Maisa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Maisa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maisa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.