Massa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAA-sa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Massa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “diamond”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Massa mean?
Arabic: from masa 'diamond'
“diamond”
From the Arabic word masa, 'a diamond'; the spelling Masa is also used.
Is Massa a girl's or a boy's name?
Massa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Massa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Massa, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th.
2025 had the most girls named Massa of any year since it first appeared, in 2006.
In 2025, 35 girls in the UK were given Massa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #934, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
- Masa 27
- Massa 8
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Massa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 1 | #7,582 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
How popular is Massa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Massa, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2024, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
2025 had fewer girls named Massa than any year since 2012.
Half of all the girls named Massa in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Massa in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
Names like Massa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Rahma, Abeeha, Zainab, Ayah, Huda, Ayra, Safaa, Nusaybah, Amira
Other spellings of Massa
Names related to Massa
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Massa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/massa, updated 20 October 2026.