Mayson
Mayson is given to both girls and boys: 41 girls and 98 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,687 among girls’ names and #1,686 among boys’, #2,842 among all names counting both); 6,039 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,980 Americans named Mayson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mayson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mayson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mayson is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
As a surname, Middle English May’s son, personal name shortened from Matthew and many other origins. The modern given name is mostly a spelling variant of Mason.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mayson?
#1,686 among boys’ names, 2025
Mayson fell from #787 in 2015 to #1,686 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.15 to 0.06 per 1,000.
385 babies in 2012, the peak
Mayson peaked in 2012, when 385 babies were given it (341 boys, #694 among boys’ names). The 139 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 36% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,687 | 98 | #1,686 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,098 | 144 | #1,335 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,667 | 147 | #1,306 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,431 | 165 | #1,207 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,685 | 220 | #1,000 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,411 | 211 | #1,003 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,830 | 219 | #977 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,418 | 259 | #853 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,123 | 256 | #853 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,555 | 269 | #841 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,575 | 297 | #787 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,695 | 302 | #774 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,551 | 288 | #781 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,624 | 341 | #694 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,536 | 270 | #813 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,792 | 244 | #862 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,339 | 154 | #1,179 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,909 | 157 | #1,159 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,113 | 127 | #1,336 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,042 | 86 | #1,662 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,717 | 86 | #1,600 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,421 | 79 | #1,644 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,163 | 76 | #1,650 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,805 | 65 | #1,779 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,286 | 61 | #1,830 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,562 | 41 | #2,359 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,404 | 39 | #2,322 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,886 | 27 | #2,985 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,464 | 18 | #3,826 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,687 | 24 | #3,072 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,056 | 15 | #4,196 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,423 | 12 | #5,003 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 20 | #3,321 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 17 | #3,688 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #7,012 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 7 | #6,904 |
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 Mayson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,039 Americans recorded as Mayson, 20% are girls and 80% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mayson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mayson, and how old are they?
5,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,039 Americans ever recorded as Mayson. The median Mayson alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 4,254 people named Mayson (1,006 women and girls, 3,248 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 169 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,520 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,290 |
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 Mayson born?
The states with the most babies named Mayson are Texas, New York and California, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,856 | 0.7× |
| New York | 9 | #1,261 | 0.7× |
| California | 7 | #2,127 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,181 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,413 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,405 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,132 | 0.4× |
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 Mayson 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, Mayson is the second most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 139 of their 6,840 babies (2.0%), the third 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 Mayson
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 Mayson and names like it
- Compare Mayson and MasonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMayson peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mayson since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Mayson: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Mayson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mayson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.