Maasai
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- mah-SY
- US rank, 2025
- #7,675 for boys
Maasai is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).
What does Maasai mean?
Spelling of Masai; from the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania
Shares its name with the Maasai, a semi-nomadic, cattle-herding people of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.
Meaning borrowed from Masai.
Is Maasai a girl's or a boy's name?
Maasai is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maasai in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,675th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 170,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 9% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Maasai, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,851st. Its busiest year was 2020, with 19 boys. It first appears in the records in 2011.
2025 had fewer boys named Maasai than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Maasai in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 136 boys in the US were given Maasai or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,237, up from #7,675 for this spelling alone.
Maasai in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,675 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,899 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,661 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,629 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,105 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,851 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,316 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,638 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,650 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,760 |
Names like Maasai
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa, Azai, Zahir, Zamir, Khaza, Muhammadali, Musab, Muhammad, Zayan, Zayd, Hamza, Azir
Other spellings of Maasai
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Maasai: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maasai, updated 20 October 2026.