Male plastic surgery statistics: every procedure, counted, from the 2025 ASPS report
Men had 89,617 cosmetic surgical procedures in the US in 2025. The full breakdown by procedure, what grew, what shrank, and what the numbers do not say.
You have read four articles this month saying men are flooding into cosmetic surgery. Now you are staring at the same question in a more useful form: what did the actual counting body count?
Here is the answer. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons counted 89,617 male cosmetic surgical procedures in the US in 2025. That is not a boom. Men's cosmetic surgery did not boom in 2025. It stood still.
Key numbers
- Male surgical total: 89,617 procedures in 2025, versus 89,519 in 2024, a reported 0% change. 2025 ASPS Procedural Statistics Report
- Female surgical total: 1,431,257 procedures in 2025, versus 1,334,360 in 2024, a reported 7% increase. 2025 ASPS Procedural Statistics Report
- All surgical procedures: 1,523,330 in 2025, versus 1,425,390 in 2024, a reported 7% increase. 2025 ASPS Procedural Statistics Report
- Largest male procedure: Male breast reduction, also labeled gynecomastia surgery, at 20,879 procedures. 2025 ASPS Procedural Statistics Report
- Male share of the surgical total: 89,617 of 1,523,330, which is 5.9%. This is a share of procedures, not of patients. ASPS statistics hub
Table of contents
- How many cosmetic surgeries did men have in 2025?
- The full male procedure table
- What grew and what shrank
- What these numbers count, and what they miss
- Why gynecomastia surgery is the number one male procedure
- What the age data adds
- What a table like this cannot tell you about your own face
- The bottom line
- Sources
How many cosmetic surgeries did men have in 2025?
Men had 89,617 cosmetic surgical procedures in the US in 2025. The ASPS report counted 1,523,330 across men and women, making men's share 89,617 ÷ 1,523,330 = 5.9% of procedures.
Female cosmetic surgical procedures rose from 1,334,360 in 2024 to 1,431,257 in 2025, a 7% increase. The male total moved from 89,519 to 89,617, which ASPS reports as 0% change.
That is the Stillness Test: check the total.
Caveat: the report's rounded change labels can make a small movement look exactly motionless. Here, the underlying counts are still the clearest reference.
The full male procedure table
| Procedure | 2025 | 2024 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Male breast reduction (gynecomastia surgery) | 20,879 | 23,838 | -12% |
| Liposuction | 18,938 | 20,684 | -8% |
| Eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) | 14,327 | 14,427 | -1% |
| Nose reshaping (rhinoplasty) | 6,886 | 6,617 | +4% |
| Tummy tuck (abdominoplasty) | 5,805 | 5,733 | +1% |
| Facelift (rhytidectomy) | 5,077 | 4,343 | +17% |
| Neck lift | 3,479 | 2,789 | +25% |
| Breast reduction | 3,223 | 2,259 | +43% |
| Facial fat grafting | 3,146 | 2,218 | +42% |
| Chin liposuction (submental liposuction) | 1,884 | 1,864 | +1% |
| Lower body lift | 1,345 | 1,076 | +25% |
| Breast augmentation | 962 | 611 | +58% |
| Forehead lift | 942 | 913 | +3% |
| Upper body lift | 553 | 426 | +30% |
| Brazilian butt lift | 550 | 373 | +48% |
| Thigh lift | 513 | 478 | +7% |
| Arm lift (brachioplasty) | 496 | 332 | +50% |
| Breast implant removals | 182 | 154 | +19% |
| TOTAL | 89,617 | 89,519 | 0% |
What grew and what shrank
Cherry-picking fails: “Men's procedures are surging” ignores the 0% total; “Nothing happened” ignores the movement.
The biggest male declines were gynecomastia surgery at -12%, liposuction at -8%, and eyelid surgery at -1%. The strongest rises included breast augmentation at +58%, arm lift at +50%, Brazilian butt lift at +48%, breast reduction at +43%, facial fat grafting at +42%, and upper body lift at +30%.
Other increases were neck lift and lower body lift, each at +25%; facelift at +17%; thigh lift at +7%; rhinoplasty at +4%; forehead lift at +3%; tummy tuck and chin liposuction, each at +1%; and breast implant removals at +19%. The total stood still; individual choices moved substantially.
Caveat: year-over-year change is descriptive, not causal. This table does not tell us why a procedure rose or fell.
What these numbers count, and what they miss
These numbers count surgical procedures reported through ASPS data collection among plastic surgeons, not every provider or operation in the US.
Three boundaries matter:
- Surgical only: the male total excludes injectables and other minimally invasive treatments. For 2025, ASPS presented its five most common minimally invasive treatments by volume rather than by procedure count while seeking a data source aligned with its cosmetic and reconstructive datasets. Neuromodulator injections accounted for half of minimally invasive treatments, and hyaluronic acid fillers accounted for 30%.
- Provider coverage: ASPS's collection is valuable, but its frame is plastic surgeons contributing to that system. Do not rewrite it as every clinic, specialty, or provider in the country.
- Procedures are not people: 89,617 procedures is not 89,617 men or the percentage of men in the population who had surgery. One person can appear more than once, and the report does not give us a unique-patient rate here.
For terminology, see the cosmetic procedures glossary, rather than a headline that collapses surgery, injectables, and skincare.
Caveat: the report is still the strongest reference for this specific table. Its limits mean precision about the dataset matters as much as precision about the figures.
Why gynecomastia surgery is the number one male procedure
Male breast reduction, labeled gynecomastia surgery in the ASPS table, was the largest single male cosmetic surgery in 2025 at 20,879 procedures. Calling it vanity misses that it addresses excess breast tissue or contour that can be uncomfortable, visible through clothing, or difficult to change through fat loss alone.
The report lists “Male breast reduction (gynecomastia surgery)” and “Breast reduction” separately, so we keep the source's categories. For chest appearance, see how to get rid of moobs and how to lose chest fat before assuming surgery is the only route.
The kind reading is also the accurate one: wanting a flatter chest is not proof of insecurity, and it is not proof that surgery is necessary.
What the age data adds
The age data does not support treating cosmetic surgery as mainly a young person's phenomenon. Across both sexes, ages 18-25 accounted for 62,670 cosmetic procedures in 2025, down 9% from 69,005 in 2024, while ages 36-45 and 46-55 together accounted for 49% of all cosmetic procedures, or 738,000 of the nation's 1.5 million cosmetic procedures.
ASPS also reports that procedures among adults ages 66 and older rose 24% in 2025, the largest year-over-year increase of any age group.
Caveat: these are all-procedure age figures across both sexes, not a male-only age breakdown. They provide context, not a demographic profile of male patients.
What a table like this cannot tell you about your own face
A national procedure table tells you what was counted, not whether surgery would improve your first impression or presentation.
That missing axis is perception: first impressions respond to framing, expression, hair, clothing, and how a face reads as a whole. A man researching blepharoplasty for hunter eyes, how to get rid of eye bags, buccal fat removal, or how to get rid of a double chin should separate “what can be changed” from “what other people actually notice first.”
At Real World Appeal, the missing axis is a free first-impression readout on a 70-155 perception axis. There is no paywall on your result: you see it before deciding anything. It is a perception model, not medical advice, a diagnosis, or a promise that any procedure will produce a particular outcome. If you want the read, run the test.
Appearance anxiety deserves a direct sentence: you do not need to treat a table of procedures as a verdict on your face. Use it to understand the market, then make decisions from proportion, health, comfort, and your own goals.
Caveat: no first-impression model can replace an in-person consultation with a qualified clinician when surgery is genuinely under consideration. The point is to improve the question you bring to that consultation.
The bottom line
Men had 89,617 cosmetic surgical procedures in the US in 2025, up from 89,519 but still reported as 0% year over year. Women's procedures rose 7%, and several male procedures moved sharply in both directions. The honest headline is simple: men's cosmetic surgery did not boom in 2025. It stood still.
Start with the total, inspect the procedure, check whether it is surgical, and never confuse procedures with people. Before treating surgery as the answer to a first-impression worry, measure how you are actually perceived.
Sources
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons. 2025. 2025 ASPS Procedural Statistics Report. Primary source for all procedure and age figures in this article: https://www.plasticsurgery.org/documents/news/statistics/2025/plastic-surgery-statistics-report-2025.pdf
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Plastic Surgery Statistics. Official statistics hub: https://www.plasticsurgery.org/news/plastic-surgery-statistics
Frequently asked questions
How many men get plastic surgery?
The 2025 ASPS report counted 89,617 male cosmetic surgical procedures in the US. That is a procedure count, not a count of unique men. See the full procedure glossary.
What is the most common cosmetic surgery for men?
Male breast reduction for gynecomastia was the largest single male cosmetic surgery, at 20,879 procedures. Read the practical context in how to get rid of man boobs.
Is male plastic surgery increasing?
Not in total surgical volume: men's procedures moved from 89,519 to 89,617, reported as 0% change. The movement underneath that flat line is more useful. Compare the broader frame in looksmaxxing versus plastic surgery.
Does the ASPS report include Botox and fillers?
No. The 2025 report's male total is surgical only. ASPS presented minimally invasive treatments by volume, with neuromodulators at half and hyaluronic acid fillers at 30%, rather than adding them to this surgical table. Start with the cosmetic procedures glossary.
What percentage of cosmetic surgery patients are men?
Men accounted for 5.9% of 2025 cosmetic surgical procedures: 89,617 ÷ 1,523,330 = 5.9%. That is a share of procedures, not of patients. See what cosmetic procedure data can tell you.