Maisyn
Feminine · “stoneworker”
Maisyn is given to both — 1,721 girls and 112 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Maisyn respells Mason, and a mason is a stonecutter — the trade that built every cathedral in Europe, and one of the few medieval crafts with a surviving secret tradition.
How old is the name Maisyn?
Maisyn first appears in US birth records in 1999 — 26 years ago. The typical Maisyn is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,700 people named Maisyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maisyn most popular?
Maisyn peaked in 2021, reaching #1229 nationally. Today it ranks #1652, 423 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
From masson to Maisyn
The story of Maisyn
Mason rose extraordinarily as an American boys' name from the 2000s, reaching the top two. Families then built feminine respellings from it, as they had from Jackson and Peyton — Maisyn, Maysen, Masyn. Maisyn appears in the American registers in the 2010s and is in current use.
Meaning
stoneworker
From the Old French masson, 'stonemason', probably from a Frankish root related to 'to make'. It was an occupational surname of the ordinary kind. The word is documented and the meaning undisputed; the -syn respelling is a recent American feminine marker.
How the name formed
- masson
- Mason
- Maisyn
Related forms: Mason · Masyn · Maçon
Pronouncing Maisyn
MAY-sun
Two syllables, stress on the first. Maisyn and Mason are said identically.
Nicknames for Maisyn
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
- 1999
- Most girls named
- 2021191 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1229reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- +26.3%125 in 2025, from 99
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.
Maisyn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mason in English — related form
- Masyn in English — spelling variant
- Maçon in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Louisiana, Ohio.
Maisyns among us
people named Maisyn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 12,858 born in 2025 was named Maisyn
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 Alea test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maisyn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alea climbed just as high around 1999, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alea's path sketches the road Maisyn is walking now.
Maisyn 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 Maisyn is headed
Maisyn is easing off slowly — about 26% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Maisyn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maisyn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The stonemason meaning is concrete and records one of the great medieval trades.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Mason is available as the standard form on the page.
- Mason is overwhelmingly the standard spelling and reads as masculine.
- The -syn ending will need dictating every time.
- It is very new as a feminine name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maisyns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Maisyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Maisyn in 2025?
- Maisyn ranks #1652 among US girl names in 2025, with 125 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maisyn?
- About 1 in every 12,858 US girls born in 2025 was named Maisyn — 125 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maisyn with classmates?
- Maisyn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Maisyn
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