Massià
surname · Latin script
Massià 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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
168 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Massià 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 168 | 1 in 1.3M | 168 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 88 | 1 in 38K | 88 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 86 | 1 in 582K | 86 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 41 | 1 in 1.1M | 41 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 1 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Édouard de Massiàb. 1824FRDoctor and mayor Molig at Conflent
- Julián Palanca Masiáb. 1883ESnot in their usual nameSpanish conductor, musicologist and composer (1883-1964)
- Joan Massiàb. 1890ESSpanish-Catalan violinist, composer and music pedague (1890-1969)
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Massià 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 Massià have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 168 people named Massià, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Massià most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Massià 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 Massià?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 168 people named Massià, about 1 in 1.3 million 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/massi%C3%A0The 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, “Massià”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.