Masai
Masai was given to 116 boys in 2025, #1,511 among boys’ names; 882 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Masai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Masai?
#1,511 among boys’ names, 2025
Masai rose from #4,490 in 2015 to #1,511 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 67.9 per million.
128 babies in 2025, the peak
Masai peaked in 2025, when 128 babies were given it (116 boys, #1,511 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 89 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116 | #1,511 | 67.9 |
| 2024 | 89 | #1,829 | 51.7 |
| 2023 | 77 | #1,995 | 45.0 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,209 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,802 | 25.7 |
| 2020 | 50 | #2,572 | 29.0 |
| 2019 | 51 | #2,572 | 28.4 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,421 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 32 | #3,489 | 17.3 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,421 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,490 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,340 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,906 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,407 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,875 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,939 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,596 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,547 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,658 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,801 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,091 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,688 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,445 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,625 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,557 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,649 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,987 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,698 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,876 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,984 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,495 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,413 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,306 | 3.1 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,121 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,368 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,717 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,357 | 6.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Masai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 882 Americans recorded as Masai, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 girls and 116 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Masai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Masai, and how old are they?
An estimated 871 Americans named Masai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 2 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 414 people named Masai (50 women and girls, 364 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 428 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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 3,884 babies since 1880, Masai is the third most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 128 of their 242 babies (53%), the most given that year.
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 Masai
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 Masai and names like it
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