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Masaki

Boys' name

Right, proper + tree

Masaki has been given to 257 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Masaki, 2022

1 in 564,000

Masaki over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Masaki: meaning, origin, and history

Right, proper + tree

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Masaki means

Masaki means “right, proper + tree”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Masaki is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mä.sä.kʲi/ for Masaki.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 257 boys were recorded with the name Masaki between 1919 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2006; its best national rank was #4,047 in 1977.

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.

How common is Masaki?

Masaki had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Masaki sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Masaki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Masakis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Masaki was born before 1999 — so the typical Masaki is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
236
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 25.7% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Masaki 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (11)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,047
1977

Spellings of Masaki

Masaki is not the most common spelling — Malakai is, with 39.2% against Masaki's 0.56%.

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 Masaki is used

Across 1910–2025, Masaki was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Masaki has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Masaki around the world

Where Masaki 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.

  • South Australia
    1988–1988
    #476
    in 1988

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Masaki by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,047
1977
Peak year
2006
11 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
257
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Masaki

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

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Sibling names for Masaki

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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