Mason
Mason reached its high-water mark in 2011 at number 2, and has been recorded 345,931 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 39th. About 337,000 Masons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mason boys named Mason
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 345,931
- Estimated living today
- 337,000
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2011
- Best rank
- 2nd
- Rank in 2025
- 39th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 3,348 / 342,583
How old the living Masons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 345,931 babies given the name since 1880, about 337,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 226,000 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Masons
- Mason Mount (born 1999)English association football player
- Mason Greenwood (born 2001)English association football player
- Mason Holgate (born 1996)English association football player
- Mason Thames (born 2007)American actor
- Mason Ryan (born 1982)British professional wrestler
- Mason Gooding (born 1996)American actor
- Mason Plumlee (born 1990)American basketball player
- Mason Cook (born 2000)American actor
People named Mason with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mason is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mason is most concentrated in Nevada (2.4×), Utah (1.8×), Alaska (1.7×), Idaho (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2011
The most popular boys’ names the year Mason peaked:
Mason elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Mason | 39,610 | 27th |
| Scotland boys | Mason | 3,826 | 11th |
| New Zealand boys | Mason | 3,547 | 5th |
| Ireland boys | Mason | 2,386 | 40th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Mason | 1,425 | 15th |
| Belgium boys | Mason | 639 | 168th |
| France boys | Mason | 575 | 931st |
| Switzerland boys | Mason | 120 | 582nd |
| Poland boys | Mason | 69 birth registrations | 338th |
| England and Wales girls | Mason | 10 | 3,594th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mason: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Mason | 94 | 0.008% | 508th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Mason | 24 | 0.006% | 517th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Mason | 2 | 0.003% | 193rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mason is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 30 of them.
Mason: rank by region
In 2025, Mason was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mason | 119 | 49 |
In 2019, Mason was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Śląskie | Mason | 228 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Mason appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (38th), Province of West Flanders (95th), Province of East Flanders (96th) and Province of Antwerp (204th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mason by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 5 | 515th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mason among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Mason | 1,713 | 2,142 |
| Finland boys | Mason | 34 | 45 |
| the Netherlands girls | Mason | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Mason against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.