Mayson
#3,645 for girls in 2025, 41 births · #1,677 for boys in 2025, 98 births
Given to boys 80.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 341 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,848since 1990
Mayson over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,645 | 41 | #1,677 | 98 |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 | #1,332 | 144 |
| 2023 | #5,549 | 22 | #1,300 | 147 |
| 2022 | #4,378 | 32 | #1,204 | 165 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 | #996 | 220 |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | #1,002 | 211 |
| 2019 | #3,788 | 39 | #976 | 219 |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 | #852 | 259 |
| 2017 | #4,066 | 36 | #853 | 256 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 | #839 | 269 |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 | #784 | 297 |
| 2014 | #3,652 | 42 | #773 | 302 |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 | #779 | 288 |
| 2012 | #3,583 | 44 | #693 | 341 |
| 2011 | #3,496 | 45 | #813 | 270 |
| 2010 | #3,745 | 41 | #860 | 244 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 | #1,173 | 154 |
| 2008 | #3,859 | 41 | #1,154 | 157 |
| 2007 | #3,096 | 56 | #1,332 | 127 |
| 2006 | #3,017 | 56 | #1,654 | 86 |
| 2005 | #2,704 | 62 | #1,595 | 86 |
| 2004 | #3,391 | 44 | #1,629 | 79 |
| 2003 | #3,131 | 47 | #1,646 | 76 |
| 2002 | #2,780 | 54 | #1,772 | 65 |
| 2001 | #3,256 | 42 | #1,816 | 61 |
| 2000 | #3,527 | 37 | #2,330 | 41 |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 | #2,300 | 39 |
| 1998 | #3,831 | 30 | #2,926 | 27 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | #3,022 | 38 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | — | #3,246 | 20 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,604 | 17 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mayson! It came in at #6,415, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1991, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Mayson is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#346 · 1 in 2,016
- Mississippi#387 · 1 in 1,922
- Connecticut#429 · 1 in 2,871
- Minnesota#442 · 1 in 2,770
- Louisiana#480 · 1 in 2,418
Best ever in a state: #318 in West Virginia, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #346 | 11 | 1 in 2,016 |
| Mississippi | #387 | 7 | 1 in 1,922 |
| Connecticut | #429 | 5 | 1 in 2,871 |
| Minnesota | #442 | 10 | 1 in 2,770 |
| Louisiana | #480 | 10 | 1 in 2,418 |
| Oklahoma | #495 | 8 | 1 in 2,532 |
| Missouri | #505 | 10 | 1 in 3,175 |
| Maryland | #519 | 8 | 1 in 3,467 |
| Iowa | #533 | 5 | 1 in 3,024 |
| Florida | #546 | 26 | 1 in 3,537 |
| Indiana | #552 | 10 | 1 in 3,567 |
| Tennessee | #554 | 10 | 1 in 3,579 |
| Arizona | #558 | 10 | 1 in 3,699 |
| Alabama | #572 | 6 | 1 in 3,700 |
| New Jersey | #592 | 10 | 1 in 4,147 |
| Utah | #609 | 6 | 1 in 3,610 |
| Pennsylvania | #640 | 12 | 1 in 5,019 |
| Ohio | #671 | 12 | 1 in 4,980 |
| Massachusetts | #698 | 5 | 1 in 5,932 |
| Wisconsin | #700 | 5 | 1 in 5,458 |
| New York | #721 | 19 | 1 in 5,490 |
| California | #729 | 36 | 1 in 6,403 |
| Texas | #739 | 30 | 1 in 5,921 |
| Colorado | #753 | 5 | 1 in 5,430 |
| Georgia | #792 | 9 | 1 in 6,001 |
| Michigan | #916 | 6 | 1 in 7,940 |
| Illinois | #1,192 | 6 | 1 in 11,086 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Mayson
- 345 spots since 2024 (#1,332 → #1,677)
- 675 spots since 2020 (#1,002 → #1,677)
- 893 spots since 2015 (#784 → #1,677)
- Biggest jump: 313 spots in 2010 (#1,173 → #860)
- Biggest drop: 208 spots in 2022 (#996 → #1,204)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2012 at #693 (341 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2010–2019
- Highest: 1 in 5,563 boys born in 2012 were named Mayson (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,429 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 56.6% of all boys named Mayson (2,745) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1998, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 186 | #2,300 (1999) | #4,062 |
| 2000s | 932 | #1,154 (2008) | #1,610 |
| 2010s | 2,745 | #693 (2012) | #822 |
| 2020s | 985 | #996 (2021) | #1,252 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mayson in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 40,024 of them was named Mayson, which outranked 81.7% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,523Viridiana45
- #3,523Yanira45
- #3,523Zaryah45
- #3,583Mayson44
- #3,583Adelie44
- #3,583Adrionna44
- #3,583Agatha44
- #3,644Aalyiah43
- #3,644Ahtziri43
- #3,644Alesha43
Tied with 60 names at #3,583; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 5,563 of them was named Mayson, which outranked 95.1% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).