Maison
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maison is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A spelling variant of Mason. The surname can also be from French Maison (“house”).
- USUnited States1 in 95K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 120K
- DKDenmark1 in 130K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- 1 in 95K (inferred from the name graph)
3,485 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A spelling variant of Mason. The surname can also be from French Maison (“house”).
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maison counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,485 | 1 in 95K | 2.8K | — | 79 |
| BR Brazil | 1,767 | 1 in 120K | 1.8K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 48 | 1 in 213K | 48 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 46 | 1 in 376K | 46 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 45 | 1 in 130K | 45 | — | — |
3,485 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nicolas-Joseph Maisonb. 1771FRFrench marshal, politician and diplomat (1771-1840)
- Edna Maisonb. 1892USactress (1892-1946)
- René Maisonb. 1895BEBelgian opera singer (1895–1962)
- Maisonb. 1900FRFrench rower
- Hector Maisonb. 1936ARArgentinian association football player
- Jérôme Maisonb. 1953FRFrench photographer
- Dominika Maisonb. 1966PLPolish psychologist
- Wolfgang Maisonb. 1971DEGerman chemist and author
- Éloïse de La Maisonb. 1992FRFrench translator
- Leonard MaisonUSAmerican politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.8K | #5,055 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.8K | #5,575 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.5K | #7,122 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 787 | #31,504 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 707 | #32,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 648 | #33,248 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 646 | #5,055 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 151 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 48 | #13,989 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 46 | #7,040 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 45 | #2,503 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maison mean, and where does it come from?
- A spelling variant of Mason. The surname can also be from French Maison (“house”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Maison have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Maison, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Maison most common?
- Maison is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 95 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maison?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,485 people named Maison in 2020, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maisonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maison”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.