Mayson
Masculine · “stoneworker”
Mayson is given to both — 4,848 boys and 1,191 girls since 1880. See Mayson as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Mayson respells Mason, and a mason is a stonecutter — the trade that built every cathedral in Europe and left a craft tradition still going.
How old is the name Mayson?
Mayson first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Mayson is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 4,800 people named Mayson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mayson most popular?
Mayson peaked in 2012, reaching #693 nationally. Today it ranks #1677, 984 places below that high. See the whole 2012 chart.
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Where it comes from
From masson to Mayson
The story of Mayson
Mason rose extraordinarily as an American boys' name from the 2000s, reaching the top two, and the respellings followed as they always do — Mayson, Maison, Masyn. Mayson appears in the American registers from that decade and is in current use, a fraction of Mason's numbers.
Meaning
stoneworker
From the Old French masson, 'stonemason', probably from a Frankish root meaning 'to make'. It was an occupational surname of the ordinary kind, and the word is documented. The May- respelling is a recent American variation with no meaning of its own.
How the name formed
- masson
- Mason
- Mayson
Related forms: Mason · Maison · Maçon
Pronouncing Mayson
MAY-sun
Two syllables, stress on the first. 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
- 1990
- Most boys named
- 2012341 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #693reached in 2012
- Change vs 2024
- −31.9%98 in 2025, from 144
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
- Maison in English — spelling variant
- Maçon in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Maysons among us
people named Mayson are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 17,429 born in 2025 was named Mayson
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mayson
- #1677
- Mayson on the 2025 chart
- #686
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mayson went to 98 boys in 2025, but Maison is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 249, which makes it the 686th most-given boys’ name of the year — 991 places above the chart.
- Maison151
- Mayson98
About 1 boy in 6,860 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 17,429 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 Raynard 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: Raynard climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Raynard'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 is easing off slowly — about 17% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
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 boys 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 will be assumed.
- At least three spellings of the sound are in circulation.
- It will be respelled by other people constantly.
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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 4,800 people named Mayson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mayson?
- Mayson is one of 2 recorded spellings. Maison is the more common one — 151 births in 2025 against 98 for Mayson.
- How popular is the name Mayson in 2025?
- Mayson ranks #1677 among US boy names in 2025, with 98 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mayson?
- About 1 in every 17,429 US boys born in 2025 was named Mayson — 98 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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