Entry № 6283 · Arabic origin

Mais Mais — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MIES /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Graceful walk (Arabic)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "graceful walk (arabic)".

Mais (ميس) is the Arabic word for the graceful, swaying walk — also the name of a desert tree (Celtis), often invoked in classical Arabic poetry as the figure of a beloved.

Used widely in the Levant.

Graceful walk. The Arabic of love poetry.

The name in its native script.

ميس
Transliteration
Mays
Pronunciation
/ maɪs /
Root
—
Grammatical form
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Where Mais stands.

Mais 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.

Maiss before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Mais
Common in Arabic poetry.

Names connected to Mais.

The number behind Mais.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mais reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.