Mayson is a spelling variant of Mason, an English occupational surname for a "stoneworker" or "bricklayer", from the Old French masson. The y spelling rode on the huge popularity of Mason, which was a top 10 name in the early 2010s. Mayson entered the US top 1000 in 2010, peaked at number 694 in 2012 and has faded as the trend cooled: number 787 in 2015, number 1003 in 2020 and number 1686 in 2025.