Masal

given name · Turkish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Masal is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: fairy tale.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 17K◐
  • CYCyprus1 in 17K
  • AZAzerbaijan1 in 22K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈147 ●

across 6 countries

Sources
43 ●

30K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 232K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Maşal in TM Turkmenistan, SY Syria.

Meaning & origin●

fairy tale

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Masal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye31,63028K rec.—2.1KMasal21
AT Austria41941 rec.—124Masal12
DE Germany236245 rec.—listedMasal27
AZ Azerbaijan1987 rec.—190Masal5
CY Cyprus137170 rec.——Masal5
BE Belgium9915 rec.—12Masal4
US United States78338 rec.—5Masal43
SE Sweden44△2 rec.1 in 232K44—1
NL Netherlands43△20 rec.1 in 402K43Masal3
TM Turkmenistan3232 rec.——Maşal1
IN India23140 rec.—21Masal17
BR Brazil210 rec.1 in 10M466Masal1

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Turkish28K77%
  • Kurdish3.6K10%
  • Hindi8022%
  • German6692%
  • Bangla3441%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish28,06077%
Kurdish3,56310%
Hindi8022%
German6692%
Bangla3441%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Masal is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name13K records spelled Masal3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Türkiye

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Maşal

  • Portuguese given name606 records spelled Masal4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Türkiye, United States, Chile

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Maşal

  • Indonesian given name443 records spelled Masal4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mas'Al

  • Arabic given name431 records spelled Masal3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Saudi Arabia, India

    Also written Maşal, Mąsąl

  • Bangla given name355 records spelled Masal4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Pakistan, India

    Also written Maşal

  • French surname231 records spelled Masal2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Senegal, United States

    Also written Massal

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Masal 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.

  • torch

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

  • In ncl, deer

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, bajka, gatka, priča za djecu

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

  • In Basque, Concha. Gabonzar gabean jandako marraskilloen masalak . Kk Ab I 63. Marraskillo-masala . Ib. 63.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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.

Over time●

010203020102015202024 · 2022

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Masal in Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present), Austria, 2009–2024
Yearrecords
20091
20105
20114
20132
20156
20168
201711
20189
20197
20207
202117
202224
202310
202413

AT Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) — 14 years between 2009–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Masal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — newborn names20223.6K#12
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — newborn names20213.3K#14
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — newborn names20233.2K#11
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — newborn names20242.6K#22
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — newborn names20252.1K#29
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—466#18,157
AZ AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics—190—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024124#383
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—71#23,456
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—44#14,758
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—43#9,258
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—34#14,697

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 236 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Masal?
We estimate roughly 147 people bear Masal (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Masal have the most bearers?
Masal is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled masal.
Is Masal a male or female name?
Masal 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.
What does the name Masal mean?
Recorded meaning: fairy tale
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Masal”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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