Masyn
Feminine · “stone worker”
Masyn is given to both — 738 girls and 1,501 boys since 1880. See Masyn as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Masyn is a respelling of Mason marked for girls, and the trade behind it is one of the few medieval crafts that required travel.
How old is the name Masyn?
Masyn first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Masyn is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Masyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Masyn most popular?
Masyn peaked in 2016, reaching #3588 nationally. Today it ranks #4265, 677 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Masyn
Ours, offered as ours. The y-for-girls convention is one of the clearest rules modern American naming has made: Masyn, Landyn, Jordyn, Kaydyn, Emersyn, Adisyn — a men's surname name takes a y and becomes a women's one. Nobody wrote the rule down and everybody follows it. That is a naming tradition inventing a piece of grammar within about twenty years, which is fast even by its standards.
Meaning
stone worker
From Old French masson, a mason, of Frankish origin; the English word and the surname are the same. The y in this spelling marks it as a girls' name, which is a modern American convention.
Pronouncing Masyn
MAY-sun
Two syllables, first stressed. Masyn and Mason are said identically.
Nicknames for Masyn
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 girls named
- 201643 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3588reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- −2.9%33 in 2025, from 34
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.
Masyn 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.
Masyns among us
people named Masyn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 48,705 born in 2025 was named Masyn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Masyn
- #4265
- Masyn on the 2025 chart
- #909
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Masyn went to 33 girls in 2025, but Macyn is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 51, which makes it the 909th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,356 places above the chart.
- Masyn33
- Macyn18
About 1 girl in 31,515 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 48,705 for Masyn 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 Maison test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Masyn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Maison climbed just as high around 2000, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Maison's path sketches the road Masyn is walking now.
Masyn 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 Masyn is headed
Masyn should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High 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.
Masyn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Masyn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls 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.
- Five letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Mason is the standard spelling and is overwhelmingly a boys' name.
- The y is doing the work of marking a girls' name, which not everyone reads.
- Masyn, Maisyn and Mason are all in use and only Mason is common.
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Frequently asked
- How many Masyns 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 Masyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Masyn?
- Masyn is the most-used spelling in US records — 33 of the 51 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Macyn.
- How popular is the name Masyn in 2025?
- Masyn ranks #4265 among US girl names in 2025, with 33 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Masyn?
- About 1 in every 48,705 US girls born in 2025 was named Masyn — 33 in all.
- Will my child share the name Masyn with classmates?
- Masyn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Masyn
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