Taisa
From Greek, meaning something close to "lovely" or "delightful", and carried mostly in Russian and Ukrainian families. Around 800 women in Poland have it, and it's barely given to newborns now, so most Poles will never meet one.
Taisa Pronunciation
Taisa is pronounced tah-EE-sah (/taˈisa/).
What Taisa means
Where Taisa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Taisa comes from the Greek Thaïs, and in Polish its meaning is given as piękna, zachwycająca: beautiful and delightful. Those senses grew from a word about charm and grace. The name traveled east, and Russian and Ukrainian families kept it in daily use, alongside the fuller variant Taisia.
There was a real Thaïs. A fourth-century penitent from Egypt, later honored as a saint, she gave the name a second life in the Christian East. Centuries afterward, Anatole France built his 1890 novel around her story, and Massenet set that novel to music. So the name has a documented history, from Alexandrian legend to an opera stage.
In a Polish class register, Taisa still reads as slightly foreign, closer to Kyiv than to Kraków. That foreignness is part of its appeal. Short and open-voweled, it moves easily between Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian speech.
The meaning stays legible in the sound. Taisa, and its sister form Taisia, both point back to that old idea of beauty and delight.
How many people are named Taisa
1 in 27129 women in Poland is named Taisa. 831 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1035 among female names.
Taisa as a middle name
Taisa is a first name for 831 women in Poland and a middle name for another 29, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1324th, between Tacjana (29) and Tova (29).
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#1322 Sydonia29
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#1323 Tacjana29
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#1324 Taisa29
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#1325 Tova29
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#1326 Véronique29