Last Name MASON

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Meaning	A stonemason, a woodmason. Also 'the son of Matthew.' Old French Mayheu, shortened into Maye.

Origin	English, Scottish, Jewish, French, Italian, Chilean, Irish, Falkland, Maori, Belgian, Zimbabwean, South african, Hungarian, Guam

Rank	149 (2000 US census)	135 (1990 US census)

Count	155,484 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

70.99%, or 110378 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
24.48%, or 38062 total occurrences, as black,
0.42%, or 653 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.73%, or 1135 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.7%, or 2643 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.68%, or 2612 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest baby names

We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

Please, send us any information you may have about addition two character first names and especially ...

Scottish surnames

Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...