Masha
Masha was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,024 among girls’ names; 571 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Masha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Masha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Masha is “a female given name of Russian, Ukrainian origin, diminutive of Maria.”
From Russian and Ukrainian Ма́ша (Máša).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Masha?
#7,024 among girls’ names, 2025
Masha rose from #8,282 in 2015 to #7,024 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 10.0 per million.
33 babies in 2022, the peak
Masha peaked in 2022, when 33 girls were given it, #4,342 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,024 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,441 | 19.8 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,330 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,342 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,684 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,427 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,005 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,719 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,704 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,112 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,282 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,051 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,747 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,350 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,521 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,956 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,566 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,249 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,952 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,692 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,504 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,379 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,082 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,983 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,690 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,633 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,026 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,379 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,132 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,181 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,248 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,315 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,323 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,765 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,892 | 4.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,730 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,089 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,418 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,202 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,909 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,500 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,319 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,829 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,878 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,260 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,274 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,076 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,658 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,127 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,072 | 4.2 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,468 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,218 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Masha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Masha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Masha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Masha, and how old are they?
An estimated 560 Americans named Masha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 6 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,106 people named Masha (1,082 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 419 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,489 babies since 1880, Masha is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 29 babies (55%), 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 Masha
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 Masha and names like it
- Compare Masha and MaishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMasha peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Masha since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Masha.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Masha alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.