Mason

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Male Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

Origin and Meaning

English name

Transferred use of the surname, which originated in the early Middle Ages as an occupational name for a worker in stone. From Old French maçon of Germanic origin, connected with Old English macian = 'to make' ^[1]

Related Names

Mason

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Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
	as main name^#	also middle name^&	as main name^#	also middle name^&	as main name^#	also middle name^&
Sweden^[2]	276	322	3	4	273	318
Denmark^[3]	429	n.a.	0	n.a.	429	n.a.
Finland^[4]	n.a.	44	0	0	n.a.	44
Iceland^[5]	4	4	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway^[6]	35	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	35	n.a.
Greenland^[7]	0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
^#: count of main first name only
^&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Mason (m) Sources: ^[2]^[3]^[6]^[4]

References

↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/

[oxf-1] Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)

[scb.se-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/

[dst.dk-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk

[vrf.fi-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi

[hag.is-5] Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/

[ssb.no-6] 6.0 ^6.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no

[stat.gl-7] Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/

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