Maeson
Masculine · “stone worker”
Maeson is given to both — 714 boys and 314 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Maeson is a respelling of Mason, an occupational surname for a stone worker — and the trade behind it built every cathedral in Europe.
How old is the name Maeson?
Maeson first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Maeson is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Maeson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maeson most popular?
Maeson peaked in 2012, reaching #2448 nationally. Today it ranks #3848, 1,400 places below that high. See the whole 2012 chart.
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Where it comes from
From masson to Maeson
The story of Maeson
Masons were the elite of the medieval building trades, traveling between cathedral works and organizing in lodges, and the surname is common wherever stone was built with. It moved into American given names in the 1990s and rose to the very top of the records within twenty years. Maeson is one of the respellings, and the ae is doing purely visual work.
Meaning
stone worker
From Old French masson, a mason, of Frankish origin; the English word and the surname are the same. The freemasons took the name from the trade's medieval lodges, which is a later borrowing rather than the source.
How the name formed
- masson
- Mason
- Maeson
Related forms: Mason · Maçon
Pronouncing Maeson
MAY-sun
Two syllables, first stressed. Maeson and Mason are said identically.
Nicknames for Maeson
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1995
- Most boys named
- 201251 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2448reached in 2012
- Change vs 2024
- +3.7%28 in 2025, from 27
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Maeson in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mason in English — spelling variant
- Maçon in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Maesons among us
people named Maeson are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 61,003 born in 2025 was named Maeson
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Collen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maeson's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Collen climbed just as high around 1997, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Collen's path sketches the road Maeson is walking now.
Maeson sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Maeson is headed
Maeson should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Maeson beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maeson in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled occupational meaning with a genuinely impressive trade behind it.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Mase is a plain short form that works from childhood on.
- Mason is the standard spelling and will be written for him constantly.
- The sound is extremely widely used, so a classroom may hold more than one.
- The ae adds a letter without changing the sound at all.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maesons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Maeson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Maeson in 2025?
- Maeson ranks #3848 among US boy names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maeson?
- About 1 in every 61,003 US boys born in 2025 was named Maeson — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maeson with classmates?
- Maeson will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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