Masai
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · #1,509 for boys in 2025, 116 births
Given to boys 98.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 116 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 864since 1973
Masai over time
Rank among boys' names. Masai has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | #1,509 | 116 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #1,820 | 89 |
| 2023 | — | #1,986 | 77 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,191 | 66 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,775 | 45 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,546 | 50 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,556 | 51 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,373 | 33 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,440 | 32 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,327 | 23 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,407 | 22 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,263 | 23 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,804 | 19 | |
| 2012 | — | #5,256 | 17 | |
| 2011 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2010 | — | #7,591 | 10 | |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | #9,019 | 8 | |
| 2007 | — | #8,173 | 9 | |
| 2006 | — | #7,427 | 10 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,875 | 13 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,492 | 14 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,271 | 14 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,502 | 17 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,390 | 13 | |
| 2000 | — | #6,316 | 10 | |
| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
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| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
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| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
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| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,223 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Masai! It came in at #3,223, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1975, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Masai is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#607 · 1 in 3,615
- South Carolina#743 · 1 in 4,240
- Georgia#792 · 1 in 4,566
- North Carolina#873 · 1 in 5,719
- Florida#1,056 · 1 in 7,961
Best ever in a state: #491 in Pennsylvania, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #607 | 11 | 1 in 3,615 |
| South Carolina | #743 | 5 | 1 in 4,240 |
| Georgia | #792 | 11 | 1 in 4,566 |
| North Carolina | #873 | 9 | 1 in 5,719 |
| Florida | #1,056 | 12 | 1 in 7,961 |
| New York | #1,202 | 9 | 1 in 9,380 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,231 | 5 | 1 in 10,452 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
| California | #2,203 | 6 | 1 in 29,246 |
| Texas | #2,285 | 6 | 1 in 29,175 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Masai
- 311 spots since 2024 (#1,820 → #1,509)
- 1,037 spots since 2020 (#2,546 → #1,509)
- 2,898 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #1,509)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2025 at #1,509 (116 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,725 boys born in 2025 were named Masai (0.01%)
- 51.3% of all boys named Masai (443) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 21 | #3,223 (1973) | #4,462 |
| 1980s | 6 | #5,619 (1982) | #5,619 |
| 1990s | 39 | #7,638 (1993) | #8,553 |
| 2000s | 115 | #4,502 (2002) | #6,733 |
| 2010s | 240 | #2,556 (2019) | #4,752 |
| 2020s | 443 | #1,509 (2025) | #2,138 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Masai in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 133,939 of them was named Masai, which outranked 51.7% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #7,885Zunaisha13
- #7,885Zylee13
- #7,885Zyriah13
- #8,362Masai12
- #8,362Abella12
- #8,362Aby12
- #8,362Adaily12
- #8,860Aadiya11
- #8,860Aadvika11
- #8,860Aara11
Tied with 497 names at #8,362; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 14,725 of them was named Masai, which outranked 89.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,499Randall117
- #1,499Vito117
- #1,499Zeppelin117
- #1,509Masai116
- #1,509Brent116
- #1,509Freddie116
- #1,509Tristen116
- #1,514Gavriel115
- #1,514Jahmari115
- #1,514Jru115
Tied with 4 names at #1,509; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.