Name Awesome

Masha

#7,024 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Masha has been given to 571 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #7,024 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Masha, 2025

1 in 207,000

Masha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Masha: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Masha means

Masha belongs to the name family reached through Masha → Maria → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Masha is used in English.

Masha comes through ru,uk Ма́ша.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria and מרים.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 571 girls were recorded with the name Masha between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2022; its best national rank was #4,342 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,427 in 2020 to #7,024 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,282 in 2015 to #7,024 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 Masha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,024
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Masha 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Masha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mashas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Masha was born before 2010 — so the typical Masha is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
26.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
571
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (150).

Is Masha 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
−2,583
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,597
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,258
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.5%
Peak was 2022 (33)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,342
2022

Spellings of Masha

Masha is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 29.5% against Masha'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 Masha is used

Across 1910–2025, Masha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 792,199 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Masha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Masha around the world

Where Masha 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
    2003–2023
    #2,928
    in 2023
  • France
    1993–2025
    #1,562
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1977–2005
    #775
    in 2005

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.

Masha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,024
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,597
Best rank ever
#4,342
2022
Peak year
2022
33 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
571
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Masha

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

MasieMasynMasaMassaMyshaAeshaRashaDishaAashaNyshaMasonRishaEeshaEishaMaseyAushaElyshaYashaMasakoBashaAmishaLayshaMeeshaMasina

Sibling names for Masha

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

Explore around Masha

Top names of 2022, Masha's peak yearThe 2020s in fullOther names that peaked in 2022Girls' names starting with MRussian Girl Names