Masao

Last seen for boys in 2019 at #12,145

Peak · boys
1918 · 81 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,018
since 1907

Masao over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Masao has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201907peak #700, 1918boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1941#3,1336
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1934#2,7428
1933#1,99713
1932#1,65119
1931#2,47110
1930#1,49624
1929#1,48024
1928#1,29331
1927#1,26733
1926#1,24234
1925#1,18436
1924#90759
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1922#81868
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1920#96551
1919#82263
1918#70081
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1913#93028
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1911#1,7405
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First appearance
1907

The first year at least five boys were named Masao! It came in at #1,345, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1907–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Masao is popular in 1907

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Masao
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2019
  • Biggest jump: 805 spots in 1912 (#1,740 → #935)
  • Biggest drop: 277 spots in 1925 (#907 → #1,184)
Rise & fade · boys
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1907
  • Peaked 1918 at #700 (81 births)
  • Births halved by 1925, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 13 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1912–1924
Share of babies · boys
1 in 12,512
  • Highest: 1 in 12,512 boys born in 1918 were named Masao (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 358,843 boys born in 2019 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 44.5% of all boys named Masao (453) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s10#1,345 (1907)#1,359
1910s400#700 (1918)#952
1920s453#818 (1922)#1,096
1930s114#1,496 (1930)#2,206
1940s11#3,133 (1941)#3,296
1950s0——
1960s5#4,038 (1960)#4,038
1970s0——
1980s7#5,003 (1982)#5,003
1990s0——
2000s0——
2010s18#8,767 (2011)#11,016

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.

Masao in 1907

boys
#1,345
5 births · 1 in 29,365 boys

Top boys' names in 1907

  1. #1John8,983
  2. #2William6,904
  3. #3James6,707
  4. #4George4,445
  5. #5Robert4,020
  6. #6Charles3,884
  7. #7Joseph3,844
  8. #8Frank2,943
  9. #9Edward2,576
  10. #10Henry2,203
  11. #1,345Masao5
More about 1907

boys

146,826 boys got a published name in 1907; 1 in 29,365 of them was named Masao, which outranked 13.2% of the 1,549 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Masao
  1. #1,200Wille6
  2. #1,200Winford6
  3. #1,200Xavier6
  4. #1,345Masao5
  5. #1,345Adolf5
  6. #1,345Adron5
  7. #1,345Agustin5

Tied with 204 names at #1,345; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1906
Risers
  1. ↑ 518Leamon#1,253 → #735
  2. ↑ 518Price#1,253 → #735
  3. ↑ 495Quincy#1,111 → #616
  4. ↑ 477Irene#1,111 → #634
  5. ↑ 477Mitchel#1,111 → #634
Fallers
  1. ↓ 636Norval#709 → #1,345
  2. ↓ 593Harper#752 → #1,345
  3. ↓ 560Barton#640 → #1,200
  4. ↓ 547Hurley#798 → #1,345
  5. ↓ 547Lawton#798 → #1,345

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1907 →