Boys' name · since 2021
Masego
19 babies named Masego in U.S. Social Security records since 2021, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 19
- total births
- 2021–2025
- years on record
- 2020s
- peak decade
- 100%
- born in that decade
Masego is not among the current top-ranked boys names; 19 have been recorded since 2021.
Masego has 19 recorded births among boys since 2021, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2021 to 2025.
- 19 total births
- 2021–2025 years on record
- 2020s peak decade
- 100% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Masego's 19 recorded births place it above 35% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Masego's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Masego splits its recorded history at 2022: 74% of all births land in the more recent half, 26% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2021 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2022 peak of 9 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Masego popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–2025
- Peak year (2022)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 5 years of records
Masego by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2020s was Masego's strongest decade.
19 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Masego births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
19 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 19 births (100% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 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, 2021–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Masego: Baby Name Since 2021 - 19 Births, Peak 2022." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/masego. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Masego 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 July 2026.