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mason Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: occupational name for a stonemason, Middle English, Old French mas(s)on. Compare Machen. Stonemasonry was a hugely important craft in the Middle Ages.
  2. Italian (Veneto): from a short form of Masone.
  3. French: from a regional variant of maison ‘house’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The mason name in History

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Distribution of mason Families in the US in 1920
Number of mason families
 927-1851
 310-926		 1-309
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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