MEANING & HISTORY
What does Masayo mean?
Ivona Barešová’s study of Meiji-period Japanese names explicitly lists Masayo under the semantic core masa, righteousness, and explains yo name endings, including the kanji for age or generation. This establishes a specific historical formation.
The Philippine Latin-script record supplies no kanji, so the account is not assigned universally to every spelling of Masayo.
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Masayo in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
MASAYOCSV record 965 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Masayo in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Masayo
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Malaya·Free; not under another’s control
- Masoy♂Familiar form of Damaso
- Maan♀Tagalog familiar compound-name form; Dutch Herman form also exists
- Macario♂Blessed or happy
- Macy·Surname from the French place name Massy
- Magno·Great, in the Latin Magnus name family
- Maja♀Maria familiar form and independently documented May-name routes
- Makiko♀For 真紀子: truth, record or order, and child
What rhymes with Masayo?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Masayo further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Ivona Barešová (2017), Chrysanthemum, Pine and Crane—Female Names of Meiji Period Japan, SOS 16(2), pp. 46–51 (opens in a new tab)
Primary onomastic study: exact Masayo in masa righteousness group, name-suffix discussion and script-dependent meanings; full PDF consulted.