Massai
Boy · mah-SY
Massai is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).
What does Massai 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.
- Say it
- mah-SY
Meaning borrowed from Masai.
Is Massai a girl's or a boy's name?
Massai 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 Massai in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,675among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 170,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Massai, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2017, with 11 boys. It first appears in the records in 2000.
2025 had more boys named Massai than any year since 2017.
Half of all the boys named Massai in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 136 boys in the US were given Massai 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.
Massai in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,675 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,858 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,636 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,236 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,202 |
Names like Massai
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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