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How popular is “Mason” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mason” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Mason” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Mason” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Mason” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Mason” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Mason” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mason” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 22 0.00010919 22 -100%
1881 13 0.000067467 13 -100%
1882 12 0.000054168 12 -100%
1883 12 0.000055314 12 -100%
1884 14 0.000057504 14 -100%
1885 15 0.000062278 15 -100%
1886 18 0.000070501 18 -100%
1887 13 0.000052548 13 -100%
1888 14 0.000046749 14 -100%
1889 21 0.000072678 21 -100%
1890 16 0.000053085 16 -100%
1891 11 0.000038371 11 -100%
1892 20 0.000059813 20 -100%
1893 12 0.000036898 12 -100%
1894 18 0.000053146 18 -100%
1895 19 0.000054128 19 -100%
1896 18 0.000050352 18 -100%
1897 23 0.000066291 23 -100%
1898 15 0.000039323 15 -100%
1899 19 0.000056009 19 -100%
1900 32 0.00007107 32 -100%
1901 15 0.000043376 15 -100%
1902 24 0.000062058 24 -100%
1903 21 0.000055089 21 -100%
1904 20 0.000049568 20 -100%
1905 22 0.000051896 22 -100%
1906 20 0.00004668 20 -100%
1907 22 0.000047272 22 -100%
1908 27 0.000055254 27 -100%
1909 16 0.000031297 16 -100%
1910 27 0.000045708 27 -100%
1911 30 0.000046564 30 -100%
1912 58 0.000058701 58 -100%
1913 85 0.000074751 85 -100%
1914 89 0.000062838 89 -100%
1915 98 0.000053481 98 -100%
1916 143 0.000073924 7 136 -90%
1917 114 0.000056808 114 -100%
1918 121 0.000055732 5 116 -92%
1919 125 0.000059235 125 -100%
1920 148 0.00006541 6 142 -92%
1921 144 0.000061683 144 -100%
1922 131 0.000057226 131 -100%
1923 133 0.000057764 5 128 -92%
1924 119 0.000049966 119 -100%
1925 114 0.000048858 114 -100%
1926 122 0.000053138 122 -100%
1927 108 0.000046565 108 -100%
1928 108 0.000047768 108 -100%
1929 96 0.000043793 96 -100%
1930 95 0.00004273 95 -100%
1931 85 0.000040392 85 -100%
1932 86 0.000040734 86 -100%
1933 83 0.000041512 83 -100%
1934 89 0.000042854 89 -100%
1935 82 0.000039237 82 -100%
1936 82 0.000039469 82 -100%
1937 71 0.000033323 71 -100%
1938 80 0.000036157 80 -100%
1939 80 0.000036307 80 -100%
1940 77 0.00003344 77 -100%
1941 81 0.000033246 81 -100%
1942 103 0.000037705 103 -100%
1943 89 0.000031532 89 -100%
1944 91 0.000033828 91 -100%
1945 69 0.00002601 69 -100%
1946 84 0.000026289 84 -100%
1947 88 0.000024429 88 -100%
1948 92 0.000026647 92 -100%
1949 93 0.000026688 93 -100%
1950 90 0.00002569 90 -100%
1951 86 0.000023346 86 -100%
1952 85 0.00002238 85 -100%
1953 81 0.000021019 81 -100%
1954 70 0.000017585 70 -100%
1955 98 0.000024408 98 -100%
1956 92 0.000022314 92 -100%
1957 72 0.000017134 72 -100%
1958 89 0.000021527 89 -100%
1959 85 0.000020449 85 -100%
1960 80 0.000019259 80 -100%
1961 89 0.000021487 89 -100%
1962 89 0.000022058 89 -100%
1963 94 0.000023747 94 -100%
1964 98 0.000025209 98 -100%
1965 73 0.000020135 73 -100%
1966 90 0.000025895 90 -100%
1967 87 0.000025627 87 -100%
1968 102 0.000030192 102 -100%
1969 156 0.000044888 156 -100%
1970 179 0.000049633 179 -100%
1971 165 0.000048073 165 -100%
1972 132 0.000041998 132 -100%
1973 152 0.000050384 152 -100%
1974 268 0.000088158 268 -100%
1975 307 0.000101677 307 -100%
1976 249 0.000082061 249 -100%
1977 261 0.000082168 261 -100%
1978 273 0.000086016 5 268 -96%
1979 323 0.000097086 5 318 -97%
1980 337 0.000097837 337 -100%
1981 310 0.000089613 310 -100%
1982 332 0.000094642 5 327 -97%
1983 250 0.000072186 8 242 -94%
1984 283 0.00008112 6 277 -96%
1985 465 0.00013029 10 455 -96%
1986 660 0.000185552 9 651 -97%
1987 829 0.000229927 12 817 -97%
1988 1039 0.000281201 13 1026 -97%
1989 1113 0.000289517 15 1098 -97%
1990 1498 0.000379025 20 1478 -97%
1991 2056 0.000527844 21 2035 -98%
1992 2233 0.000581347 33 2200 -97%
1993 2500 0.000663106 26 2474 -98%
1994 2835 0.000762613 33 2802 -98%
1995 3718 0.001015287 87 3631 -95%
1996 4002 0.001097327 120 3882 -94%
1997 4423 0.001219925 155 4268 -93%
1998 4801 0.001305298 143 4658 -94%
1999 5584 0.001511744 133 5451 -95%
2000 6664 0.00176306 148 6516 -96%
2001 7597 0.002029511 150 7447 -96%
2002 8027 0.002147329 149 7878 -96%
2003 8038 0.002114142 141 7897 -96%
2004 8781 0.00229831 162 8619 -96%
2005 9924 0.002581318 152 9772 -97%
2006 10541 0.002664698 128 10413 -98%
2007 10868 0.002718864 95 10773 -98%
2008 10595 0.002695862 106 10489 -98%
2009 10765 0.002818436 75 10690 -99%
2010 14929 0.004040165 76 14853 -99%
2011 19613 0.005362915 89 19524 -99%
2012 19074 0.005216254 83 18991 -99%
2013 17797 0.004882844 73 17724 -99%
2014 17293 0.004666952 78 17215 -99%
2015 16753 0.004528023 92 16661 -99%
2016 15372 0.004191386 88 15284 -99%
2017 13657 0.003820442 62 13595 -99%
2018 12588 0.003582089 74 12514 -99%
2019 11548 0.003329114 76 11472 -99%
2020 10174 0.003048074 67 10107 -99%
2021 9154 0.002704534 69 9085 -98%
2022 8092 0.002395067 66 8026 -98%
2023 7302 0.002214575 65 7237 -98%