Girls' name · since 2014
Masal
Since 2014, U.S. Social Security records show 30 babies named Masal, peaking in 2023. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #41,000 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,540 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 30
- born since 2014
- 2020s
- peak decade
Masal currently ranks #16540 among girls' names in America, with 30 babies recorded since 2014.
Social Security Administration records show Masal recorded 30 times among girls since 2014, holding rank #16540 nationally today, ahead of 4% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2014 to 2025.
- #41,000 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,540 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 30 born since 2014
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Masal ranks #41,000 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,540 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 30 born since 2014, peaking in the 2020s.
- #41,000 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,540 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 30
- born since 2014
- 2020s
- peak decade
Masal's 30 recorded births place it above 43.1% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Masal compares
30 11th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Masal's all-time total is 92% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Masal | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 30 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Masal's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Masal's full recorded timeline at 2023, 63% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 37% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2014, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2023 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Masal popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Masal by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (19 births, 63% of the file).
2020s was Masal's strongest decade.
19 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Masal births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
11 births
- 2020s
2020s
19 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 19 births (63% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2014–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Masal draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.