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Mahsa

#4,831 in 2025Girls' name

Like the moon

Mahsa has been given to 351 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #4,831 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Mahsa, 2025

1 in 118,000

Mahsa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mahsa: meaning, origin, and history

Like the moon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mahsa means

Mahsa means “like the moon”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mahsa is used in English.

Mahsa comes through Persian مهسا.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include مهسا.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 351 girls were recorded with the name Mahsa between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,299 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,974 in 2020 to #4,831 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mahsa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 57,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,831
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mahsa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahsa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mahsas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mahsa was born before 2020 — so the typical Mahsa is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
60.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
351
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Choose a decade

2020s — 60.1% of all recorded uses (211).

Is Mahsa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,343
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−857
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
57.1%
Peak was 2022 (49)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,299
2022

Spellings of Mahsa

Mahsa is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 49.7% against Mahsa's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mahsa is used

Across 1910–2025, Mahsa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 231,682 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Virginia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mahsa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mahsa around the world

Where Mahsa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • France
    2020–2025
    #2,569
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mahsa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,831
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 857
Best rank ever
#3,299
2022
Peak year
2022
49 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
351
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Mahsa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MahamMahariMahimaMahiaMahikaMahliaMahekMaheenMahyaMahraMahinaMahathiMahiyaMahiraMahlaniMaheletMahumMahreenMahiMahdiyaMahoganiMahliMahanaMahlet

Sibling names for Mahsa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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