Girls' name · since 1980
Maisa
Maisa has 263 recorded births since 1980 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #17,111 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #6,953 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 263
- born since 1980
- 2000s
- peak decade
Maisa currently ranks #6953 among girls' names in America, with 263 babies recorded since 1980.
Maisa has 263 recorded births among girls since 1980, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #6953 as of the latest data, more common than 60% of girls, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1980 to 2025.
- #17,111 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #6,953 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 263 born since 1980
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Maisa ranks #17,111 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #6,953 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 263 born since 1980, peaking in the 2000s.
- #17,111 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #6,953 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 263
- born since 1980
- 2000s
- peak decade
Maisa's 263 recorded births place it above 76.32% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Maisa compares
263 42nd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Maisa's all-time total is 30% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Maisa | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 263 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 16 | 21 | 19,840 |
Maisa's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Maisa's SSA record in two at 2009 and the more recent half accounts for 52% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 48%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1980, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2025 peak of 16, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Maisa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1980–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 46 years of records
Maisa by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (95 births, 36% of the file).
2000s was Maisa's strongest decade.
95 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 36% of all-time use.
Maisa births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 16
1980s
16 births
- 1990s 29
1990s
29 births
- 2000s
2000s
95 births
- 2010s
2010s
61 births
- 2020s
2020s
62 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 95 births (36% of all-time use).
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- Maisa's usage has stayed within range of its 2000s decade-level peak (95 total births) through the 2020s (62) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Maisa: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
Similar record span (~45 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1980–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Maisa draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.