Where the Mason name comes from

Mason is an occupational surname out of Scotland and England, and it named someone who worked in stone. The word behind it is Old English or Old French masson. The name arrived in England on the great wave of migration that followed the Norman Conquest of 1066. Related forms of it turn up in Italian and French. Families later passed the surname across into use as a given name, where it kept the same sense of one who works with stone.