Masao
Masao is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 705th, in 1918.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191881 births
- Best rank
- #705in 1918
- Since 1907
- 1,018people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,018 boys have been named Masao in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 81 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 81 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1920s alone account for 44%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1918, its biggest year
Masao was the 705th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Masao
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Yoshiopeak 1921
- Guidopeak 1921
- Americopeak 1922
- Casimirpeak 1919
- Attiliopeak 1916
- Nunziopeak 1923
- Casimerpeak 1918
- Kiyoshipeak 1923
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.