Masao vs Massiah
American parents have registered 1,544 Massiahs since 1880, against 1,018 Masaos. Massiah is still ahead, with 64 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Masao Massiah
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 61 years in which either name was published, Masao for 34 years and Massiah for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Masao | Massiah | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,018 | 1,544 |
| Most in one year | 81 | 124 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 64 |
| Estimated living today | 50 | 1,500 |
| Median age today | 43 | 7 |
| Peak year | 1918 | 2021 |
| Best rank | 700th boys | 1,454th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 2,207th |
| First recorded | 1907 | 1999 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,018 | 93 / 1,451 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Masaos alive today are over 43; half the Massiahs are over 7. That is 36 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Masao Hawaii (191.1×), California (3.6×), Washington (2.0×)
- Massiah Florida (5.4×), Georgia (4.5×), South Carolina (2.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Masao and Massiah.