Mas
org · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country, rather than in a village, from Catalan and Occitan mas ‘farmstead’ (Late Latin mansum, mansus)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mas is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 7.7K
- UYUruguay1 in 2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
21,915 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mas' in ID Indonesia.
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)
topographic name for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country, rather than in a village, from Catalan and Occitan mas ‘farmstead’ (Late Latin mansum, mansus).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mas 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.
21,915 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Mas is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a short form of Thomas. Compare Maas 1 and Mass.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In French, farm, ranch, (country) house (type of rural farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, farmhouse, typical country house in Catalan-speaking and Occitan-speaking territories
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A country cottage or farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, forma dialetal set. de Maso; pode indicar origem em localidades chamadas Mas
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Josep Vicenç Foixb. 1893ESnot in their usual namewriter and Poet
- Andreu Mas-Colellb. 1944ESCatalan economist and politician from Spain
- Artur Mas i Gavarrób. 1956ESSpanish politician (born 1956)
- Jorge Masb. 1963USAmerican businessman
- Jordi Cruz Masb. 1978ESSpanish chef
- Nicolas Masb. 1980FRFrench rugby union player
- Victoria Masb. 1987FRFrench novelist
- Lluís Masb. 1989ESSpanish cyclist
- Enric Masb. 1995ESSpanish cyclist
- Oriol Busquets Masb. 1999ESSpanish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 46 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22K | #241 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22K | #241 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.5K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 842 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mas mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country, rather than in a village, from Catalan and Occitan mas ‘farmstead’ (Late Latin mansum, mansus). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mas have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Mas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mas.
- Where is Mas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mas is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 21,915 people named Mas, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/masThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Mas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.