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Masha

Masha is a girl's name that peaked in 2022, when it was the 4,295th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,838th. About 560 Mashas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Masha

By the numbers

Total US births
571
Estimated living today
560
Median age today
15
Peak year
2022
Best rank
4,295th
Rank in 2025
6,838th
First recorded
1951

How old the living Mashas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 571 babies given the name since 1951, about 560 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Mashas

People named Masha with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Masha is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Masha is most concentrated in New York (9.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2022

The most popular girls’ names the year Masha peaked:

All the names of 2022

Masha elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Masha 360 958th
Italy girls Masha 213
Switzerland girls Masha 108 497th
Belgium girls Masha 53 1,085th
England and Wales girls Masha 45 2,927th
Poland girls Masha 8 birth registrations 540th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Masha: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Masha 80 0.006% 395th
French girls Switzerland Masha 22 0.005% 433rd
Italian girls Switzerland Masha 6 0.009% 152nd

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Masha is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 26 of them.

Masha: rank by region

In 2020, Masha was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Masha 431 6

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Masha among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Masha 6

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Masha against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.