Masai
#1,511 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Masai has been given to 882 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #1,511 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 116 recorded.
Babies named Masai, 2025
1 in 28,600
Masai over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Masai?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 28,600
- 116 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 14,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,511
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 19,811 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Masai sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 19,811 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Masai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Masais were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Masai was born before 2020 — so the typical Masai is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 51.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 864
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 51.3% of all recorded uses (443).
Is Masai 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
- +318
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,061
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,979
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 5.27×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (116)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.5% average annual change
Spellings of Masai
Masai is not the most common spelling — Mason is, with 76.7% against Masai's 0.19%.
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 Masai is used
Across 2016–2025, Masai was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 32,113 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 5,556
- 2New Jersey1 in 12,500
- 3Georgia1 in 14,286
- 4North Carolina1 in 20,000
- 5Florida1 in 33,333
- 6New York1 in 50,000
- 7South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 8Virginia1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.
Masai around the world
Where Masai 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.
- Canada2019–2022#2,959in 2022
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Masai by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Masai
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Masai
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.