Meaning not yet researched.
Masai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 116 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,511 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 91% of babies named Masai in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,511 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Masai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 116 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,511 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 116 (2025).
In 2025, 116 US boys were named Masai, making it the 1,511th most common boys’ name of the year, up 318 places from #1,829 in 2024. That is 27 more than the 89 boys named Masai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,511, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 116. For comparison, it was #4,492 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Masai in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 10 babies. In all, 882 US babies have been given the name, 2.0% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 461 babies named Masai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 582 US boys were named Masai; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 116. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,725 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Masai ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #634 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Masao (1,018 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Masai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 11 | #634 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #828 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #828 | — |
| North Carolina | 9 | #915 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,104 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,260 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,366 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,423 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,369 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,465 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,678 | 116 | #1,511 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,644 | 89 | #1,829 |
| 2023 | — | — | 77 | #1,996 |
| 2022 | — | — | 66 | #2,210 |
| 2021 | — | — | 45 | #2,803 |
| 2020 | — | — | 50 | #2,573 |
| 2019 | — | — | 51 | #2,573 |
| 2018 | — | — | 33 | #3,425 |
| 2017 | — | — | 32 | #3,493 |
| 2016 | — | — | 23 | #4,422 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,492 |
| 2014 | — | — | 23 | #4,343 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,909 |
| 2012 | — | — | 17 | #5,413 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #7,882 |
| 2010 | — | — | 10 | #7,945 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,601 |
| 2008 | — | — | 8 | #9,554 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,664 |
| 2006 | — | — | 10 | #7,807 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #6,097 |
| 2004 | — | — | 14 | #5,694 |
| 2003 | — | — | 14 | #5,452 |
| 2002 | — | — | 17 | #4,631 |
| 2001 | — | — | 13 | #5,564 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,657 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,995 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,707 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,882 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,991 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,502 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,419 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,312 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,123 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,370 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,719 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,359 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).