Unisex name · since 1990
Mashal
123 babies named Mashal in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 1995. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 123
- total births
- 1990–2017
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 41%
- born in that decade
Mashal is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 123 have been recorded since 1990.
Mashal has 123 recorded births among girls since 1990, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1990 to 2017.
- 123 total births
- 1990–2017 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 41% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mashal's 123 recorded births place it above 66% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mashal's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Mashal splits its recorded history at 2003: 47% of all births land in the more recent half, 53% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1990 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1995 peak of 12 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Mashal popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1990–2017
- Peak year (1995)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Mashal popularity over time - boys
10 total births recorded since 2021 (Mashal as boys' name)
Mashal by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Mashal's strongest decade.
50 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 41% of all-time use.
Mashal births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
50 births
- 2000s
2000s
47 births
- 2010s
2010s
26 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 50 births (41% of all-time use).
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- Mashal's usage has stayed within range of its 1990s decade-level peak (50 total births) through the 2010s (26) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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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, 1990–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mashal: Baby Name Since 1990 - 123 Births, Peak 1995." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mashal. 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 Mashal 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.