Masai
loc · Latin script
Meaning: lang., people, Tanzania, Kenya
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Masai is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- PKPakistan
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lang., people, Tanzania, Kenya
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Masai counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- François Masaib. 1909BEBelgian philologist and historian
- Masai Suzukib. 1948JPbadminton player
- Andargachew Masaib. 1953ETpolitician
- Edith Masaib. 1967KEKenyan long-distance runner
- Maya Masaib. 1976JPJapanese announcer
- Moses Masaib. 1978KEKenyan marathon runner
- France Masaib. 1981BEBelgian politician
- Linet Masaib. 1989KEKenyan long-distance runner
- Masai Russellb. 2000USAmerican track and field sprinter and hurdler
- Samuel Cheboleb. 2001KEnot in their usual nameKenyan athlete
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 108 | #151,532 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 100 | #155,682 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 78 | #76,222 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 30 | #37,095 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 25 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #128,791 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Masai mean, and where does it come from?
- lang., people, Tanzania, Kenya Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Masai have the most bearers?
- Masai is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled masai.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/masaiThe 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, “Masai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.