Mason

153,847 people in the United States were counted with the surname Mason in the 2020 census, making it the 171st most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,943.

By the numbers

People: 153,847
Rank: 171st
How common: 1 in 1,943
Per 100,000: 51.5

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mason described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 65.9%
Black, not Hispanic 24.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Mason

James Mason (1909–1984)British actor
Sandra Mason (born 1949)1st president of Barbados
Nick Mason (born 1944)English drummer
Marsha Mason (born 1942)American actress
George Mason (1725–1792)American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
Ryan Mason (born 1991)English association football player and manager
Jackie Mason (1928–2021)American comedian
Mercedes Mason (born 1983)Swedish-American actress

People named Mason with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mason

Also a first name

Mason has been given to 345,931 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2011. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.