Entry № 6704 · Arabic origin

Meissa Meissa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAY-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"The shining one; a star in Orion"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the shining one; a star in orion".

Meissa marks the head of Orion, the hunter; its name comes from the Arabic for the shining one.

Soft-sounding and radiant, it carries the glow of a named star.

The shining one; a star in Orion — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

Meissa
Transliteration
Meissa
Pronunciation
/ ˈmeɪ.sa /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meissa stands.

Meissa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Meissas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Meissa.

The number behind Meissa.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Meissa reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.