boys:
1k births since 1907
#3575 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1907
#6721 (13th percentile)
The name Masao is the #6,721 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,018 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 13.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,575 (22.0% percentile) for all time with 1,018 births since 1907.
Masao first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (first recorded for boys in 1907). Birth data for Masao is available in 37 out of the 113 years between 1907 and 2019. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Masao reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 14.3% percentile (ranked #455) with 77 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 77 births per million (ranked 14.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Masao".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Masao. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 22.5% confident that Masao is pronounced as muh-SAH-oh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mah-SAH-oh, at 20.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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