The MASON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	155,484	149	0.058	576
United States (1880 census)	43,446	100	0.087	869
Change since 1880	+112038	-49	-0.029	-293
Other Countries
Australia	10,766	99	0.066	659
United Kingdom	51,656	79	0.112	1,125

Top States for MASON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	11,249	263	0.033	332
Texas	9,231	258	0.044	443
Florida	8,196	203	0.051	513
Ohio	8,097	110	0.071	713
Virginia	7,432	68	0.105	1,050
Top States for MASON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	7,432	68	0.105	1,050
Alabama	4,439	132	0.100	998
Maine	1,263	138	0.099	991
Vermont	586	80	0.096	963
Mississippi	2,647	140	0.093	931

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MASON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MASON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MASON in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MASON by picking someone at random in Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MASON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MASON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MASON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MASON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	653	0.42
White (Caucasian)	110,378	70.99
Black/African American	38,062	24.48
Mixed Race	2,643	1.7
White (Hispanic)	2,612	1.68
Native American/Alaskan	1,135	0.73

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MASON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to MASON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MASON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.