Mássia

surname · Latin script

Mássia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: altération de Mathias.

  • UYUruguay1 in 38K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 582K
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.1M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

168 people

Record sources
60 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Massia in ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

altération de Mathias

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Mássia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Mássia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1681 in 1.3M168——
UY Uruguay881 in 38K88——
ES Spain861 in 582K86Massia5
AR Argentina411 in 1.1M41——
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6—3

168 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Mássia is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Massia, Massiá, Massía, Màssia, Massià

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mássia under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mássia mean, and where does it come from?
altération de Mathias Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
In which country does Mássia have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 168 people named Mássia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Mássia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mássia is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mássia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 168 people named Mássia, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mássia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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