Meaning not yet researched.
Mayson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 98 in 2025. Its best rank was #694 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #694 in 2012; #1,686 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Mayson in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,686 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #694.
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Mayson: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 98 boys in 2025. Peak: #694 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 341 (2012).
In 2025, 98 US boys were named Mayson, making it the 1,686th most common boys’ name of the year, down 351 places from #1,335 in 2024. That is 46 fewer than the 144 boys named Mayson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #694, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 341. For comparison, it was #787 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Mayson, making it the 3,688th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,413 places from #5,101 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 26 girls named Mayson in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,721, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 62. For comparison, it was #3,575 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mayson in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 7 babies. In all, 6,039 US babies have been given the name, 20% of them girls and 80% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,136 babies named Mayson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,988 US boys were named Mayson; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 269. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,429 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mayson ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,132 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mason (345,931 babies since 1880), Maison (5,390 babies since 1880), Masen (3,335 babies since 1880) and Masyn (2,239 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maycen, Mayceon and Mayzen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maycen (174), Mayceon (21), Mayzen (15), Maycin (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mayson in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,132 | #1,060 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,181 | #648 |
| New York | 9 | #1,261 | #1,130 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,405 | #957 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,413 | #762 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,856 | #934 |
| California | 7 | #2,127 | #858 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,688 | 98 | #1,686 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,101 | 144 | #1,335 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,672 | 147 | #1,306 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,433 | 165 | #1,207 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,689 | 220 | #1,000 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,413 | 211 | #1,003 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,831 | 219 | #977 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,419 | 259 | #853 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,124 | 256 | #853 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,557 | 269 | #841 |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,575 | 297 | #787 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,697 | 302 | #774 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,553 | 288 | #781 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,625 | 341 | #694 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,537 | 270 | #813 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,793 | 244 | #862 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,340 | 154 | #1,179 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,910 | 157 | #1,159 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,113 | 127 | #1,336 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,043 | 86 | #1,662 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,721 | 86 | #1,602 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,425 | 79 | #1,647 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,166 | 76 | #1,653 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,809 | 65 | #1,782 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,290 | 61 | #1,834 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,567 | 41 | #2,363 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,408 | 39 | #2,325 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,889 | 27 | #2,988 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,467 | 18 | #3,831 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,692 | 24 | #3,077 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,061 | 15 | #4,202 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,429 | 12 | #5,009 |
| 1993 | — | — | 20 | #3,327 |
| 1992 | — | — | 17 | #3,694 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #7,019 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,911 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).