# Mason (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mason/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈmeɪsən/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 345,931 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 342,583 / 3,348 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 39,620, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 89 | 2,152 |
| 2012 | 83 | 2,280 |
| 2013 | 73 | 2,477 |
| 2014 | 78 | 2,364 |
| 2015 | 92 | 2,110 |
| 2016 | 88 | 2,201 |
| 2017 | 62 | 2,767 |
| 2018 | 74 | 2,428 |
| 2019 | 76 | 2,367 |
| 2020 | 67 | 2,572 |
| 2021 | 69 | 2,550 |
| 2022 | 66 | 2,654 |
| 2023 | 65 | 2,688 |
| 2024 | 51 | 3,157 |
| 2025 | 51 | 3,153 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19,530 | 2 |
| 2012 | 18,994 | 2 |
| 2013 | 17,730 | 4 |
| 2014 | 17,225 | 3 |
| 2015 | 16,675 | 3 |
| 2016 | 15,287 | 4 |
| 2017 | 13,602 | 7 |
| 2018 | 12,526 | 9 |
| 2019 | 11,484 | 9 |
| 2020 | 10,117 | 11 |
| 2021 | 9,103 | 18 |
| 2022 | 8,051 | 24 |
| 2023 | 7,259 | 30 |
| 2024 | 6,492 | 42 |
| 2025 | 6,291 | 39 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 4 | 3,594 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,171 | 35 |
| 2012 | 2,625 | 31 |
| 2013 | 2,724 | 27 |
| 2014 | 2,470 | 29 |
| 2015 | 2,263 | 31 |
| 2016 | 2,131 | 34 |
| 2017 | 1,776 | 37 |
| 2018 | 1,540 | 40 |
| 2019 | 1,433 | 43 |
| 2020 | 1,370 | 42 |
| 2021 | 1,517 | 37 |
| 2022 | 1,369 | 42 |
| 2023 | 1,118 | 50 |
| 2024 | 806 | 63 |
| 2025 | 675 | 77 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 梅森
- French: Mason
- Latin: Mason
- Polish: Mason
- Russian: Масон
- Spanish: Masón

## People named Mason

- Mason Mount, English association football player
- Mason Greenwood, English association football player
- Mason Holgate, English association football player (born 1996)
- Mason Thames, American actor
- Mason Gooding, American actor
- Mason Cook, American actor
- Mason Ramsey, American singer, born 2006
- Mason Ewing, Cameroonian fashion designer, film director and producteur
- Mason Adams, American actor (1919–2005)
- Mason Gamble, American former exactor and current marine biologist
- John Mason Neale, Anglican priest and hymnwriter
- Mason Vale Cotton, American actor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.