Masa
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Japanese: Rōmaji transcription of まさ
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Masa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 1.8Kas Maeşa(inferred from the name graph)
- THThailand≈1 in 19Kas เมษา
- SISlovenia1 in 393
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Masa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 336 (measured from records)
- 1 in 393 (inferred from the name graph)
74,528 named Maisa, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled เมษา in TH Thailand, Maša in SI Slovenia and Maeşa in TM Turkmenistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Chad/Cameroon: people; speak a Chado-Hamitic language.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
How Masa is read(measured from records)
Masa is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Japanese32%
Rōmaji transcription of まさ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Masa in Hindi.
- Arabic18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Masa in Arabic.
- English9.3%
A strong form of paper, smooth on one side and lightly textured on the other, used for drawing and painting
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
lang., Chad, Cameroon
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Serbo-Croatian7.8%
mnoštvo
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Masa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 74,528as Maisa | 1 in 2.8K | 75K | Masa | 68 |
| SI Slovenia | #472 | 5,351 | 1 in 393 | 5.4K | Maša | 22 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 1 | Masa | 8 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | #483,238 | เมษา | 79 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #368 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Maeşa | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,059as Maisa | 1 in 2.7K | 2.1K | Masa | 8 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,072 | 1 in 3.9K | 2.1K | — | 2 |
74,528 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling maisa. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Masa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Chad/Cameroon: people; speak a Chado-Hamitic language.
as a nameAfrican Names
, 2 Short for any name beginning with Masa-.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Masa Suzukib. 1857JPJapanese nurse (1857–1940)
- Nakayama Masab. 1891JPJapanese politician, first female cabinet minister (1891-1976)
- Masa Yamadab. 1930JPJapanese actress
- Masa Takayamab. 1954JPJapanese chef
- Maša Dergancb. 1976SIactor
- Masa Tseb. 1978CNHong Kong tour leader, victim of the Manila hostage crisis (1978-2010)
- Masha Tokarevab. 1981DEnot in their usual nameGerman-Russian actress
- Maša Vesenjakb. 1982SISlovene tennis player
- Maša Zec Peškiričb. 1987SISlovenian tennis player
- Yuichi "Masa" NonakaJPJapanese composer, music arranger and musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 101 | #3,005 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 87 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 45 | #6,220 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 40 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33 | #77,494 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 9 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Masa come from?
- Chad/Cameroon: people; speak a Chado-Hamitic language. Recorded by African Names.
- What does the name Masa mean?
- In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of まさ
- In which country does Masa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 75 thousand people named Maisa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Masa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Masa is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 393 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- Is Masa a male or female name?
- Masa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Masa?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 5,351 people named Masa in 2025, about 1 in 393 residents.
- How common is Masa compared with other names?
- In Turkmenistan, Masa is the 368th most common given name of 38,989 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Masa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/masaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Masa” — the 368th most common given name in Turkmenistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.