How Many People Are Named Mason?
people named Mason are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,013 people in the US has this name
Based on 345,931 babies named Mason in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
⭐ Uncommon
Peak Year
19,619 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From an English surname meaning "stoneworker", from an Old French word of Germanic origin (akin to Old English macian "to make").
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Mason in English. Counting Mason and these spellings together, about 343,197 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Mason, 1% were girls and 99% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Mason alive today is about 15 years old, and 93% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 20 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Mason first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2011, to 19,619 babies. In 2025, 6,342 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Mason reached #2 among boys' names in 2011 to 2012, and was in the top 10 for 9 years, 2011 to 2019. In 2025 it ranked #39.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #39 |
| Best rank | #2 (2011 to 2012) |
| Years in the top 10 | 9 |
| Years in the top 100 | 29 (1997 to 2025) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #5 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Mason alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Mason were born in California than in any other state: about 31,190 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Mason was given about 1.7 times as often in North Dakota, South Dakota and Vermont.
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