Mason

Where Mason comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Mason.

  • 2 syllables
Mason through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #363 among boys, with 22 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1999
    Mason Mount born
    English association football player
  3. 2001
    Mason Greenwood born
    English association football player
  4. 2011
    Peak, #2
    19,530 babies named Mason, the most in any year.
  5. 2021
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #18.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Mason Mount · English association football player, born 1999
  • Mason Greenwood · English association football player, born 2001
  • Mason Holgate · English association football player, born 1996
  • Mason Thames · American actor, born 2007
  • Mason Gooding · American actor, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.