Masum
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məzəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Masum is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish معصوم (maʿsum), from Arabic مَعْصُوم (maʕṣūm, “protected”).
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 661(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 63K
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 661 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Masoom in PK Pakistan.
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)
- Ottoman Turkishمعصومmaʿsum(measured from records)
- Arabicمَعْصُومmaʕṣūm“protected”(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish معصوم (maʿsum), from Arabic مَعْصُوم (maʕṣūm, “protected”).
Sources 2
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Masum 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #68 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 661 | listed | Masum | 107 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Masum | 14 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 201K | listed | Masoom | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Masum | 1 |
| CN China | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Masum | 6 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Masum | 21 |
| SG Singapore | #961 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Masum | 13 |
| US United States | — | 178 | 1 in 1.9M | 163 | Masum | 99 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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)
Masum is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, innocent, sinless) infallible, protected. Al-Masum a 5.e2<!!, the innocent: an epithet of Muhammad (s). See Mahfuz 4 ,42.., protected
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Turkish, innocent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kac, three
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, 1. Günahsız, suçsuz. 2. Küçük çocuk. 3. Temiz, saf.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Masum Pervez Rubelb. 1960BDBangladeshi actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 163 | #41,276 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15 | #41,276 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Masum mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish معصوم (maʿsum), from Arabic مَعْصُوم (maʕṣūm, “protected”). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Masum?
- A machine transcription gives /məzəm/ (IPA) for Bangla.
- Is Masum a male or female name?
- Masum is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Masum?
- In the etymology graph, मासूम is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Masum have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 246 thousand people named Masum in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled masum.
- How common is the name Masum?
- In the United States, the national register counted 178 people named Masum in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Masum compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Masum is the 68th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/masumThe 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, “Masum” — the 68th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.