Meaning not yet researched.
Maisha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,122 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,122 in 1977; #8,161 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maisha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,161 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #1,122.
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Maisha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,122 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 114 (1977).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Maisha, making it the 8,161st most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,774 places from #5,387 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 24 girls named Maisha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,122, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 114. For comparison, it was #7,479 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maisha in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 8 babies. In all, 1,918 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 738 babies named Maisha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 192 US girls were named Maisha; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Masha, Maiesha and Maiysha are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Masha (571), Maiesha (34), Maiysha (22), Maysha (11), Maesha (11), Mashae (10), Mashay (5), Mayisha (5), Mahisha (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Maisha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,161 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,387 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,491 | — | — |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,887 | — | — |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,683 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,423 | — | — |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,918 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,420 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,303 | — | — |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,246 | — | — |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,479 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,923 | — | — |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,727 | — | — |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,492 | — | — |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,019 | — | — |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,552 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,230 | — | — |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,973 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,237 | — | — |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,754 | — | — |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,376 | — | — |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,348 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,959 | — | — |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,458 | — | — |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,981 | — | — |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,120 | — | — |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,352 | — | — |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,323 | — | — |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,964 | — | — |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,782 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,255 | — | — |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,854 | — | — |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,839 | — | — |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,740 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,564 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,772 | — | — |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,652 | — | — |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,004 | — | — |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,130 | — | — |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,838 | — | — |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,479 | — | — |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,827 | — | — |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 1978 | 75 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 1977 | 114 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1976 | 81 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1975 | 78 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1974 | 100 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1973 | 99 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1972 | 64 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,621 | — | — |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,717 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,448 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).