Given name
Mayssa
“twinkling star”
Mayssa is a feminine given name from Arabic. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mayssa goes back to Arabic ميساء, meaning “twinkling star.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2013. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mayssa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 0 boys · 28 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 2014.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mayssa’s family of names
Mayssa may belong to the same name family as Maysa. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Mayssa
- Mayssa PessoaBrazilian handball playerborn 1984
- Mayssa MaghrebiMoroccan actressborn 1978
- Mayssa KaraaAmerican-Lebanese singer-songwriterborn 1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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