Masako

Where Masako comes from

Masako hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1909
    First appearance
    #1,957 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1913
    Peak, #913
    34 babies named Masako — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1931
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,205.
  4. 1957
    Masako Yoshida born
    Japanese association football player
  5. 1986
    Masako Hozumi born
    Japanese speed skater
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Masako Yoshida · Japanese association football player, born 1957
  • Masako Hozumi · Japanese speed skater, born 1986
  • Masako Nozawa · Japanese voice actress and actress, born 1936
  • Masako Ishida · Japanese cross-country skier, born 1980
  • Masako Katsura · Japanese carom billiards player, 1913–1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.