Maysen
Masculine · “a worker in stone”
Maysen is given to both — 624 boys and 779 girls since 1880. See Maysen as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Maysen is Mason respelled, and Mason is a trade: the man who cut and laid stone, one of the most skilled and best paid workers in medieval Europe. The word came into English from French, and the surname followed the craft across the whole continent.
How old is the name Maysen?
Maysen first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Maysen is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Maysen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maysen most popular?
Maysen peaked in 2016, reaching #2437 nationally. Today it ranks #4857, 2,420 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
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Where it comes from
From masson to Maysen
The story of Maysen
Stone masons were among the few medieval workers who traveled: a cathedral took generations to build and the men who cut its stone moved between sites, which is part of why the trade acquired its later mythology of lodges and secrets. The surname was common everywhere the trade was, and it moved to the front of the name in twentieth-century America, becoming enormously popular in the two-thousands. Maysen belongs to that peak: a respelling made to hold on to a well-loved sound while stepping aside from a very crowded spelling.
Meaning
a worker in stone
Old French masson, a stone worker, itself probably from a Frankish word for making. The surname is occupational and is found across England and France from the thirteenth century.
How the name formed
- masson
- Mason
- Maysen
Related forms: Mason · Masson
Pronouncing Maysen
MAY-sun
Two syllables, stress in front, said exactly like Mason. The respelling changes only the look.
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
- 2000
- Most boys named
- 201652 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2437reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- +81.8%20 in 2025, from 11
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
- Masson in French — related form
Maysens among us
people named Maysen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 85,404 born in 2025 was named Maysen
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Maysen
- #4857
- Maysen on the 2025 chart
- #863
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Maysen went to 20 boys in 2025, but Mayzen, Maisen and Maizen and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 65, which makes it the 863rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,994 places above the chart.
- Maysen20
- Mayzen15
- Maisen11
- Maizen10
- Maycen9
About 1 boy in 26,278 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 85,404 for Maysen 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 Jeston 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: Jeston climbed just as high around 1984, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jeston'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
Maysen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maysen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a real trade with a visible history in every old European city.
- Mase works as a short form and is easy for other children.
- Every sound is ordinary English, so nobody stumbles.
- Mason is the standard spelling by an enormous margin and will be written instead.
- Mayson, Maysen and Masen are all in use and said identically.
- The underlying name was among the most given in the country for a decade, so the sound is everywhere.
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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 600 people named Maysen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Maysen?
- Maysen is the most-used spelling in US records — 20 of the 65 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Mayzen, Maisen, Maizen and Maycen.
- How popular is the name Maysen in 2025?
- Maysen ranks #4857 among US boy names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maysen?
- About 1 in every 85,404 US boys born in 2025 was named Maysen — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maysen with classmates?
- Maysen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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