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Masud

#13,230 in 2025Boys' name

Lucky, fortunate, happy

Masud has been given to 268 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #13,230 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Masud, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Masud: meaning, origin, and history

Lucky, fortunate, happy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Masud means

Masud means “lucky, fortunate, happy”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Masud is used in Arabic, Persian and Bengali.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mas.ˈʕuːd/ and /mæs.ˈʔuːd/ for Masud.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 268 boys were recorded with the name Masud between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,683 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,605 in 2020 to #13,230 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,186 in 2015 to #13,230 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.

How common is Masud?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,230
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Masud 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 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Masud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Masuds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Masud was born before 2015 — so the typical Masud is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
268
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Choose a decade

2010s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (127).

Is Masud 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
−6,128
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,625
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,044
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.8%
Peak was 2018 (21)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,683
2018

Spellings of Masud

Masud is not the most common spelling — Mason is, with 96.3% against Masud's 0.08%.

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 Masud is used

Across 1910–2025, Masud was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 247,470 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 100,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 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. Masud has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Masud around the world

Where Masud 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
    1996–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1998–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Masud by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,230
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,625
Best rank ever
#4,683
2018
Peak year
2018
21 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
268
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Masud

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

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Sibling names for Masud

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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