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.
- #29,446 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #13,480 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 19
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Masego is the #13480 most popular boys' name in the U.S. today, with 19 recorded since 2021.
Masego has 19 recorded births among boys since 2021, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #13480 as of the latest data, more common than 3% of boys, 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.
- #29,446 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #13,480 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 19 born since 2021
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Masego ranks #29,446 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,480 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 19 born since 2021, peaking in the 2020s.
- #29,446 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #13,480 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 19
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
Masego's 19 recorded births place it above 35.01% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Masego compares
19 8th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys 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
Masego's all-time total is 95% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Masego | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 19 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 34 | 22,252 |
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
2020s is the heaviest window (19 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Masego's strongest decade.
19 babies received the name during that partial window (2020–2025, six of ten years), about 100% of all-time use.
Masego births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window. * 2020s covers 2020–2025 only (six of ten years), so it is not directly comparable to a full decade.
- 2020s*
2020s (partial decade: 2020–2025, six of ten years)
19 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 19 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Masego: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~4 yrs)
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, 2021–2025 (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 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 August 2026.