Maison
Maison is given to both girls and boys: 23 girls and 151 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,498 among girls’ names and #1,294 among boys’, #2,430 among all names counting both); 5,390 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,330 Americans named Maison and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maison by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maison mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maison is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
A spelling variant of Mason.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maison?
#1,294 among boys’ names, 2025
Maison fell from #838 in 2015 to #1,294 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.14 to 0.09 per 1,000.
325 babies in 2016, the peak
Maison peaked in 2016, when 325 babies were given it (304 boys, #784 among boys’ names). The 174 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 54% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,498 | 151 | #1,294 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,237 | 156 | #1,267 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,487 | 161 | #1,229 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,114 | 185 | #1,136 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,060 | 199 | #1,072 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,770 | 245 | #915 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,117 | 227 | #948 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,556 | 249 | #879 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,274 | 252 | #866 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,102 | 304 | #784 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,594 | 268 | #838 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,975 | 287 | #803 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,092 | 212 | #941 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,047 | 203 | #988 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,865 | 185 | #1,030 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,725 | 167 | #1,126 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,971 | 102 | #1,587 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,278 | 86 | #1,757 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,616 | 100 | #1,574 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,265 | 88 | #1,635 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,542 | 102 | #1,448 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,669 | 80 | #1,619 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,161 | 63 | #1,876 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,629 | 71 | #1,672 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,634 | 74 | #1,605 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,626 | 55 | #1,906 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,755 | 51 | #1,918 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,056 | 50 | #1,946 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,138 | 38 | #2,246 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,783 | 25 | #2,985 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,044 | 26 | #2,812 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,754 | 23 | #3,067 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,167 | 25 | #2,832 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 21 | #3,167 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 21 | #3,065 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 11 | #4,873 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,724 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 7 | #6,189 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Maison a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,390 Americans recorded as Maison, 15% are girls and 85% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maison: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maison, and how old are they?
5,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,390 Americans ever recorded as Maison. The median Maison alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 3,485 people named Maison (646 women and girls, 2,839 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,168 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 225 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,200 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Maison born?
The states with the most babies named Maison are New York, Texas and Florida, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 16 | #874 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,530 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,102 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 9 | #960 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 9 | #812 | 0.6× |
| California | 8 | #1,931 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,059 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,197 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,401 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,132 | 0.3× |
Where Maison is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maison is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1988 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maison with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 364,712 babies since 1880, Maison is the third most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 174 of their 6,840 babies (2.5%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maison
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maison and names like it
- Compare Maison and MasonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaison peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maison since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Maison: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Maison.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maison alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.