Mailsi as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Mailsi

What is the meaning of the name Mailsi ?

The baby name Mailsi is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced MAYL-see (ˈmeɪlsi) — common,MYL-see (ˈmaɪlsi) — alternative.

Mailsi is in Origin.

Mailsi is most often treated as an inventive spelling of Maisie, the Scots pet form of Mairead (Scottish Gaelic for Margaret). Margaret ultimately derives from Greek margarites, meaning “pearl,” so Mailsi commonly carries that luminous meaning. The broader Maisie family rose in Britain from the late 19th century and enjoyed a modern revival; literary exposure from Henry James’s What Maisie Knew (1897) helped cement the nickname’s charm. As a creative variant, Mailsi appears in contemporary records but remains rare.

Variants and related forms include Maisie, Maisy, Maizie, Mazie, and the formal Margaret, along with cognates such as Mairead and Greta. A separate cultural note: Mailsi is also the name of a city in Punjab, Pakistan; used as a given name in that context, it functions as a toponymic choice rather than a derivative of Margaret, with meaning tied to place identity more than to “pearl.”

⚙ Mailsi is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Mailsi appears only 1 time in total — found in 1 country. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.