In the English-speaking world, the name Mason goes back to a job title that has become a first name. Originally, ‘mason’ means something like ‘bricklayer’ or ‘stoneworker’.
Mason is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
In the US, Mason is one of the most popular names ever. In the SmartGenius ranking recently, it has regularly been among the top 10 most common boys names and is currently in place 4. In fact, one out auf 300 boys under the age of 10 is named Mason. In total, there are currently 318,620 people – children, adults and seniors – named Mason living in the United States, which is approximately 0.10 % of the entire population.
In the English-speaking world, the name Mason goes back to a job title that has become a first name. Originally, ‘mason’ means something like ‘bricklayer’ or ‘stoneworker’.
Did you know... that the name has the same roots as the verb 'to make' in the English language?
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When you hear the name Mason, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Mason? Are you also called Mason? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
villages, counties and similar in the United States have the name Mason. You can find them among others in Kentucky or Texas.
a lunar impact crater, located in the northeastern part, is called Mason.
you can attend George Mason University and become a member of the George Mason Patriots.
Some ships of the US Navy were named USS Mason - one is in commission since 2003.
History tends to focus on the most famous and the best. But even those who play second fiddle leave their mark: Mason is one of those names without which the orchestra would be incomplete. In fact, Mason has reached the SmartGenius top ranking of #2 more than once - and again, not too long ago, the last time being in 2012. But even though the peak of popularity was not so long ago, the name Mason has been given to newborn boys every year since records began. Mason is a name of exceptional, enduring popularity, carrying the special vibes of the 20th century into the 21st.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Mason was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The popularity of the traditional name Mason peaked only recently: the name has definitely arrived in the 21st century. Mason has made it into the top ten more than once, in 2022 it was #26 in our statistics: the chances of meeting a Mason are pretty high these days. Traditional names often prove to be perennial favorites, so who knows, maybe Mason will eventually become one of the most popular names of all time.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Mason is one of them. However, Mason is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Nevada seem to particularly fancy this name – the 2,652 men called Mason who live here are 0,469% of all male residents and push their name up to #47 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Nevada. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 318,620 people with the name Mason. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Mason on position 99 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With five letters, the name Mason is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Mason and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mason, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Sun
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mason
Mason
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
S
O
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
S
O
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Mason sounds like this:
