Maysen
Feminine · “stoneworker”
Maysen is given to both — 779 girls and 624 boys since 1880. See Maysen as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Maysen respells Mason — a stoneworker — and the French maçon behind it may come from a Germanic word for making.
How old is the name Maysen?
Maysen first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Maysen is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Maysen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maysen most popular?
Maysen peaked in 2025, reaching #2514 nationally. Today it ranks #2514, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From maçon to Maysen
The story of Maysen
A maçon cut and set stone, and the medieval lodges of masons became the freemasons by a route historians still argue about. Mason became one of the biggest American boys' names of the 2010s. Maysen is a modern respelling used for both sexes and appears in the registers in current use.
Meaning
stoneworker
Through Mason, from the Old French maçon, 'stone mason', probably from a Germanic root meaning 'to make'. The occupational surname is documented. The -ysen respelling is modern American. The trade meaning is undisputed.
How the name formed
- maçon
- Mason
- Maysen
Related forms: Mason · Maysyn
Pronouncing Maysen
MAY-sun
Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Maysen
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
- 202570 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2514reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +20.7%70 in 2025, from 58
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.
Maysen in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mason in English — spelling variant
- Maysyn in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Missouri, Ohio.
Maysens among us
people named Maysen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 22,961 born in 2025 was named Maysen
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 Ellah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maysen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ellah climbed just as high around 2010, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ellah's path sketches the road Maysen is walking now.
Maysen 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 Maysen is headed
Maysen looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 36% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. 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.
Maysen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maysen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The stoneworker meaning is concrete and needs no explanation.
- May and Sonny are two short forms, both with real use.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Mason is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- It reads as masculine to most English speakers.
- At least three spellings of the sound are in circulation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maysens 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 Maysen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Maysen in 2025?
- Maysen ranks #2514 among US girl names in 2025, with 70 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maysen?
- About 1 in every 22,961 US girls born in 2025 was named Maysen — 70 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maysen with classmates?
- Maysen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Maysen
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