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Maston vs Masyn

American parents have registered 2,239 Masyns since 1880, against 241 Mastons. Masyn is still ahead, with 81 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maston against Masyn, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maston Masyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Masyn for 31 years and Maston for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Maston Masyn
Total US births 2412,239
Most in one year 13147
Babies in 2025 681
Estimated living today 1102,200
Median age today 1611
Peak year 19222012
Best rank 2,347th boys1,398th boys
Rank in 2025 10,695th2,676th
First recorded 19061995
Girls / boys 0 / 241738 / 1,501

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mastons alive today are over 16; half the Masyns are over 11. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maston and Masyn.