Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maysa is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Turkmenistan it is the 23rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script.
rarermore common
TMTurkmenistan1 in 362◐
BRBrazil1 in 2.8K
SYSyria1 in 16K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Roughly 75K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 2.8K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
Portuguese255K83%
English31K10%
Arabic6.6K2%
Spanish2K1%
Turkish1.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name
Records
Note
Portuguese
255,390
83%
English
30,828
10%
Arabic
6,573
2%
Spanish
1,999
1%
Turkish
1,632
1%
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other names spelled this way◐
Maysa is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.
French given name1.9K records spelled Maysa14 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Syria
Languages: French, Catalan
Also written Maysâ, Mayşa, Máysà, Maysá, Màÿsà
Danish given name233 records spelled Maysa7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Sweden
Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian
Also written Mayşa
Finnish given name133 records spelled Maysa3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Finland
Languages: Finnish, Estonian
Also written Mäÿsä
Bangla given name94 records spelled Maysa3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, United States, Türkiye
Also written Mâysä, Mãysã
Italian given name39 records spelled Maysa2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Mayşa
Czech given name33 records spelled Maysa4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Czechia
Also written Mayşa, Măyša
25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.
Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.
Other recorded senses●
Maysa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ch, one (of living things)
as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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Maysa in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1979–2025
Year
records
1979
5
1984
9
1986
6
1987
8
1988
5
1990
5
1991
7
1992
11
1993
13
1994
8
1995
10
1996
7
1997
15
1998
22
1999
12
2000
17
2001
16
2002
37
2003
39
2004
28
2005
31
2006
36
2007
19
2008
32
2009
29
2010
41
2011
43
2012
31
2013
32
2014
39
2015
31
2016
42
2017
33
2018
39
2019
26
2020
20
2021
27
2022
35
2023
28
2024
34
2025
31
USSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 41 years between 1979–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
Maysa Matarazzob. 1936BRBrazilian recording artist and actress (1936–1977)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 303 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
How common is the name Maysa?
We estimate roughly 78 thousand people bear Maysa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Maysa have the most bearers?
We estimate about 75 thousand people bear Maysa in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled maysa.
How common is Maysa compared with other names?
In Turkmenistan, Maysa is the 23rd most common given name of 51,859 given names recorded there.
Is Maysa a male or female name?
Maysa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this pageMondonomo, “Maysa” — the 23rd most common given name in Turkmenistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.