Masiya
Masiya was last recorded in 2025, when 5 babies were given it; 91 Americans have been recorded with it between 2002 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Masiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Masiya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,145, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2011, the peak
Masiya peaked in 2011, when 11 babies were given it (6 girls, #16,098 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #13,229 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,145 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,525 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,845 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,201 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,011 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,098 | 5 | #13,620 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,857 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,180 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,374 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #16,844 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,167 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,956 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,768 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Masiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 91 Americans recorded as Masiya, 89% are girls and 11% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Masiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Masiya, and how old are they?
An estimated 90 Americans named Masiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Masiya is a less common spelling of Masiyah: SSA has recorded 91 Masiya and 370 Masiyah since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Masiya
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.