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Mason

Boys' name · Current

Living in the US
~337,600 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#39 among boys
Births in 2025
6,342 345,931 since 1880
Typical age
13 years, median

Mason popularity over time

Mason rank by birth year, 1880–2025Mason ranked #363 in 1880 and #39 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #2, in 2011.#10#100#1,000#39best #2 in 201118901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2011: 19,619 births recorded as Mason. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. Mason has spent 29 years inside the national top 100.

As of 2025 the name sits at #39, with 6,342 births that year. The ten-year change is -62%.

Babies named Mason per yearPeaks at 19,619 births in 2011.19,619 in 2011018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Mason?

About 337,600 people named Mason are alive in the United States today. That is out of 345,931 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Mason?

The typical living Mason is 13 years old. The 2010s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Mason a current name.

Your Mason

Ages of living people named MasonHalf of living Masons are older than 13 and half younger.median 13020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Mason is most common

Vermont uses the name 2.5× as often as the country as a whole. Delaware, New Hampshire and West Virginia follow.

Where Mason is used more than average5 states use the name Mason more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: 2.5× the national rateVTNew Hampshire: 2.1× the national rateNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: 2.1× the national rateWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: 2.2× the national rateDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: 2.1× the national rateHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Mason is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Vermont 175 2.5×
Delaware 359 2.2×
New Hampshire 499 2.1×
West Virginia 777 2.1×
Hawaii 377 2.1×

Mason in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Mason ranked #77 in 2025 on 675 births. That is 51% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Mason comes from

English Wiktionary: given name from surnames.

Notable people named Mason

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Mason Mount English association football player 1999 57
Mason Greenwood English association football player 2001 48
Mason Holgate English association football player 1996 35
Mason Thames American actor 2007 25
Mason Gooding American actor 1996 23
Mason Cook American actor 2000 22
Mason Plumlee American basketball player 1990 22
Mason Ewing Cameroonian fashion designer, film director and producteur 1982 20
Photo credits (5)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 284 in 1984 to 466 in 1985 — 1.6 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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