Mayson

Where Mayson comes from

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.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mayson
Along the way
  1. 1990
    First appearance
    #6,415 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1999
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2012
    Peak, #693
    341 babies named Mayson — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2022
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,204.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Mayson turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.