Mayson
Feminine · “stoneworker”
Mayson is given to both — 1,191 girls and 4,848 boys since 1880. See Mayson as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Mayson is a respelling of Mason, the English word for a worker in stone — and the trade behind it was skilled, organized and, in the Middle Ages, unusually well traveled.
How old is the name Mayson?
Mayson first appears in US birth records in 1994 — 31 years ago. The typical Mayson alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,200 people named Mayson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mayson most popular?
Mayson peaked in 2005, reaching #2704 nationally. Today it ranks #3645, 941 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
From masson to Mayson
The story of Mayson
Stone masons were among the few medieval workers who moved from job to job across countries, since a cathedral took decades and the men who built it went where the work was — which is part of why the trade developed lodges and secrets. Mason became a surname and then, in twentieth-century America, a very widely used boys' name. Mayson with the y is used for girls and marks the name as the girls' version.
Meaning
stoneworker
From Old French masson, a builder in stone, probably Frankish in origin; the word reached English after the Norman Conquest and became a surname when trade names fixed.
How the name formed
- masson
- Mason
- Mayson
Related forms: Mason · Maçon
Pronouncing Mayson
MAY-suhn
Two syllables, first stressed. Mayson and Mason are said identically.
Nicknames for Mayson
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
- 1994
- Most girls named
- 200562 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2704reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- +57.7%41 in 2025, from 26
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.
Mayson in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mason in English — spelling variant
- Maçon in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Maysons among us
people named Mayson are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 39,202 born in 2025 was named Mayson
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mayson
- #3645
- Mayson on the 2025 chart
- #889
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mayson went to 41 girls in 2025, but Maison 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 — 2,756 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 39,202 for Mayson 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 Karra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mayson's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Karra climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Karra's path sketches the road Mayson is walking now.
Mayson 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 Mayson is headed
Mayson should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Mayson beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mayson 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 interesting trade behind it.
- May is a complete short form with a long English history.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Mason is the standard spelling and is overwhelmingly read as a boys' name.
- The -son ending means son of, which reads oddly for a girl once she knows it.
- The sound is very widely used, so a classroom may hold more than one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maysons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Mayson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mayson?
- Mayson is the most-used spelling in US records — 41 of the 71 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Maison and Maysoon.
- How popular is the name Mayson in 2025?
- Mayson ranks #3645 among US girl names in 2025, with 41 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mayson?
- About 1 in every 39,202 US girls born in 2025 was named Mayson — 41 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mayson with classmates?
- Mayson will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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