Mason

Mason is an English occupational surname turned given name, derived from the Middle English and Old French word masson, meaning a worker in stone. The term traces back ultimately to a Frankish root related to the verb meaning to cut or hew. As a given name it gained widespread popularity in the English-speaking world during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, largely as part of the trend of adopting surnames as first names. Related forms used as given names include Mace and the feminine variant Maisie, though the latter has a separate Scottish diminutive origin.