Mahsa
Mahsa was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,831 among girls’ names; 351 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mahsa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mahsa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mahsa is “a transliteration of the Persian female given name مهسا (mahsâ).”
From Persian مهسا (mahsâ).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mahsa?
#4,831 among girls’ names, 2025
Mahsa entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #4,831 in 2025.
49 babies in 2022, the peak
Mahsa peaked in 2022, when 49 girls were given it, #3,299 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,831 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,488 | 27.8 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,159 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,299 | 29.9 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,570 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,974 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,546 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,928 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,434 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,500 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #14,011 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,954 | 2.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,085 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,579 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,160 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,814 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,811 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,784 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,474 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,991 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,903 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,133 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,265 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mahsa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mahsa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mahsa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mahsa, and how old are they?
An estimated 348 Americans named Mahsa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,083 people named Mahsa (1,081 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 147 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,642 babies since 1880, Mahsa is the fourth most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 481 babies (5.8%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mahsa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mahsa and names like it
- Compare Mahsa and MaisyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMahsa peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mahsa since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Mahsa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mahsa alive today were born 2013-2025.
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