Maisha
Maisha was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,159 among girls’ names; 1,918 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,850 Americans named Maisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 24 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maisha?
#8,159 among girls’ names, 2025
Maisha fell from #7,476 in 2015 to #8,159 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 8.1 per million.
114 babies in 1977, the peak
Maisha peaked in 1977, when 114 girls were given it, #1,122 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,159 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,384 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,486 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,882 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,679 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,419 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,914 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,416 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,299 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,243 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,476 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,918 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,722 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,487 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,016 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,549 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,227 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,969 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,233 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,753 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,371 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,344 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,954 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,454 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,976 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,114 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,346 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,320 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,961 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,778 | 25.1 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,250 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,849 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,834 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,735 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,558 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,767 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,074 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,647 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,001 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,128 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,837 | 19.2 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,478 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,826 | 18.6 |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,095 | 28.9 |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,949 | 33.0 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,821 | 36.1 |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,700 | 40.5 |
| 1978 | 75 | #1,508 | 49.0 |
| 1977 | 114 | #1,122 | 74.4 |
| 1976 | 81 | #1,338 | 55.3 |
| 1975 | 78 | #1,370 | 53.5 |
| 1974 | 100 | #1,155 | 68.1 |
| 1973 | 99 | #1,130 | 67.9 |
| 1972 | 64 | #1,497 | 42.1 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,316 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,621 | 16.0 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,716 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,447 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maisha, and how old are they?
1,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,918 Americans ever recorded as Maisha. The median Maisha alive today is 42 years old; half are between 24 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,804 people named Maisha (1,783 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,752 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 773 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 499 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 228 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Maisha born?
The states with the most babies named Maisha are California, New York and New Jersey, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 356 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 220 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 63 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 18 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Maisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maisha is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maisha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,489 babies since 1880, Maisha is the most given (77% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 29 babies (45%), the second most given that year.
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 Maisha
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 Maisha and names like it
- Compare Maisha and MashaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMaisha peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Maisha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Maisha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.