Maisha
The girl's name Maisha has been in the national records since 1968, with 1,918 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 1,900 Maishas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Maisha
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,918
- Estimated living today
- 1,900
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1977
- Best rank
- 1,118th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,885th
- First recorded
- 1968
How old the living Maishas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,918 babies given the name since 1968, about 1,900 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Maisha is most common
Across the country Maisha is recorded 0.22 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Maishas are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1977
The most popular girls’ names the year Maisha peaked:
Maisha elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Maisha | 936 | 538th |
| France girls | Maïsha +1 spelling | 165 | 2,937th |
| Belgium girls | Maïsha +1 spelling | 38 | 996th |
| Ireland girls | Maisha | 3 | 856th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Maisha against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.