Masai
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · #1,509 for boys in 2025, 116 births
Given to boys 98.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 116 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 864since 1973
Masai over time
Rank among boys' names. Masai has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | #1,509 | 116 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #1,820 | 89 |
| 2023 | — | #1,986 | 77 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,191 | 66 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,775 | 45 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,546 | 50 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,556 | 51 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,373 | 33 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,440 | 32 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,327 | 23 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,407 | 22 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,263 | 23 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,804 | 19 | |
| 2012 | — | #5,256 | 17 | |
| 2011 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2010 | — | #7,591 | 10 | |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | #9,019 | 8 | |
| 2007 | — | #8,173 | 9 | |
| 2006 | — | #7,427 | 10 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,875 | 13 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,492 | 14 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,271 | 14 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,502 | 17 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,390 | 13 | |
| 2000 | — | #6,316 | 10 | |
| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
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| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
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| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,223 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Masai! It came in at #3,223, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1975, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Masai
- 311 spots since 2024 (#1,820 → #1,509)
- 1,037 spots since 2020 (#2,546 → #1,509)
- 2,898 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #1,509)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2025 at #1,509 (116 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,725 boys born in 2025 were named Masai (0.01%)
- 51.3% of all boys named Masai (443) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 21 | #3,223 (1973) | #4,462 |
| 1980s | 6 | #5,619 (1982) | #5,619 |
| 1990s | 39 | #7,638 (1993) | #8,553 |
| 2000s | 115 | #4,502 (2002) | #6,733 |
| 2010s | 240 | #2,556 (2019) | #4,752 |
| 2020s | 443 | #1,509 (2025) | #2,138 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Masai in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
boys
1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 155,858 of them was named Masai, which outranked 45.2% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,013Yale11
- #3,013Yechiel11
- #3,013Zoltan11
- #3,223Masai10
- #3,223Adron10
- #3,223Akida10
- #3,223Albino10
- #3,445Abu9
- #3,445Achilles9
- #3,445Adams9
Tied with 221 names at #3,223; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.