Masen
#2,867 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Masen has been given to 3,335 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #2,867 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 324 recorded.
Babies named Masen, 2025
1 in 75,300
Masen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Masen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 75,300
- 44 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 38,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,867
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 52,226 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Masen 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 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Masen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Masens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Masen was born before 2012 — so the typical Masen is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,243
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.5% of all recorded uses (1,735).
Is Masen 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
- −50
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,216
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,623
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.30×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 13.6%
- Peak was 2012 (324)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.8% average annual change
Spellings of Masen
Masen is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 45.5% against Masen's 0.14%.
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 Masen is used
Across 2016–2025, Masen was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 36,641 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).
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.
Masen around the world
Where Masen 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 & Wales2004–2020#4,608in 2020
- Scotland2012–2012#500in 2012
- Canada2001–2023#3,103in 2023
- South Australia1999–2013#499in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Masen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Masen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Masen
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Masen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Masen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.