Mason
Mason is ranked 42nd among boys in 2024 (6,471 births). Its best rank was 2nd, in 2011–2012.
- Rank in 2024
- #42down 12 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6,4710.38% of boys
- Peak year
- 201119,528 births
- Best rank
- #2first in 2011
- Since 1880
- 339,506people given the name
The story in the numbers
336,209 boys have been named Mason in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2011, with 19,528 births — 1.0% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 3 → 42).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 47%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 28 of them in the top 100 and 9 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 3,297 girls have also been given it, 0.97% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Mason | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 154 | |
| 1890s | 171 | |
| 1900s | 219 | |
| 1910s | 878 | |
| 1920s | 1,212 | |
| 1930s | 833 | |
| 1940s | 867 | |
| 1950s | 848 | |
| 1960s | 958 | |
| 1970s | 2,298 | |
| 1980s | 5,541 | |
| 1990s | 32,879 | |
| 2000s | 90,499 | |
| 2010s | 157,875 | |
| 2020s | 40,977 |
In 2011, its biggest year
Mason was the 2nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2011 were Jacob, Mason, William, Jayden and Noah. See all of 2011.
Names that rose and fell with Mason
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Korbinpeak 2014
- Brystonpeak 2012
- Koltenpeak 2015
- Kyranpeak 2012
- Corbynpeak 2011
- Jacenpeak 2013
- Alekzanderpeak 2010
- Janielpeak 2011
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.