Maison
Feminine · “A house”
Maison is given to both — 815 girls and 4,575 boys since 1880. See Maison as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Maison is French for a house, and it is also — much more often in the American record — a respelling of Mason. Which one a family meant is not readable from the letters, and the two readings pull in quite different directions.
How old is the name Maison?
Maison first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Maison alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 800 people named Maison are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maison most popular?
Maison peaked in 2000, reaching #3591 nationally. Today it ranks #5410, 1,819 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
From mansio to Maison
Our story of Maison
Two things were true in American naming around 2000 and this spelling sits between them. Mason was rising very fast for boys, reaching the American top ten within a decade, and rising names throw off respellings — Maison, Mayson, Maisen. At the same time French words were being used as girls' names with some frequency: Belle, Bijou, Chanel, Maison. So a Maison born in 2000 could be a French word chosen for its sound and its associations with fashion houses, or a girl given a respelling of a boys' name that was climbing at the time, which is a well-established American pattern in itself. The record shows both boys and girls with the name and cannot tell you which reasoning produced either.
Meaningscholars disagree
A house, if French; a stonemason, if from Mason
French maison, a house or household, comes from Latin mansio, a dwelling, from manere, to remain — the same root as mansion and manor. Mason is an English occupational surname for a worker in stone, from Old French masson. The two words are unrelated. Maison as an American given name serves both and the record does not distinguish.
How the name formed
- mansio
- maison
- Maison
Related forms: Maison · Mason
Pronouncing Maison
MAY-sun
Two syllables, stress on the first, identical to Mason in American use. French maison is meh-ZOHN with a nasal ending and the stress at the back, which nearly no American bearer uses.
Nicknames for Maison
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
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 200440 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3591reached in 2000
- Change vs 2024
- −8.0%23 in 2025, from 25
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.
Maison in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Maison in French — same name
- Mason in English — spelling variant
Maisons among us
people named Maison are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 69,881 born in 2025 was named Maison
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Maison
- #5410
- Maison on the 2025 chart
- #889
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Maison went to 23 girls in 2025, but Mayson and Maysoon are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 71, which makes it the 889th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,521 places above the chart.
- Mayson41
- Maison23
- Maysoon7
About 1 girl in 22,638 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 69,881 for Maison itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Frannie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maison's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Frannie climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Frannie's path sketches the road Maison is walking now.
Maison 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
Maison beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maison in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It sounds exactly like a very familiar name.
- Maisie works as a warm short form.
- Everyone can say it after one hearing.
- It is used for both sexes and reads as masculine in America.
- The French word and the English name have nothing to do with each other.
- Mason is the standard spelling and will be written for it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maisons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Maison are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Maison?
- Maison is one of 3 recorded spellings. Mayson is the more common one — 41 births in 2025 against 23 for Maison.
- How popular is the name Maison in 2025?
- Maison ranks #5410 among US girl names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maison?
- About 1 in every 69,881 US girls born in 2025 was named Maison — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maison with classmates?
- Maison will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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