Mazo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nymic occupational name for someone who made use of a mallet, Sp
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/maso/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mazo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 14K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 16K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
nymic occupational name for someone who made use of a mallet, Sp. 7nazo (a byform of Maza; cf. Macho 2). The surname is also borne by Jews, the reason(s) for its adop¬ tion being unclear.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mazo 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.
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Mazo 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.
In Spanish, mic occupational name for someone who made use of a mallet, Sp. mazo (a byform of Maza; cf. Macho 2). The surname is also borne by Jews, the reason(s) for its adop¬ tion being unclear.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Spanish, nickname for a forceful person or metonymic occupational name for someone who used a mallet, Spanish mazo (a byform of Maza 1).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Spanish, habitational name from any of a number of places so named in Galicia, Asturies, and Lleon.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Spanish, hammer (tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, variant of Mase.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Santiago José García Mazob. 1768ESSpanish writer (1768-1849)
- Manuel de Burgos y Mazob. 1862ESSpanish politician
- Henri Mazob. 1898FRFrench politician (1898-1981)
- Maurice Mazob. 1901FRFrench artist (1901–1989)
- Earl Mazob. 1919USAmerican journalist
- Joseph H. Mazob. 1938USAmerican dance critic
- Bernard Mazob. 1939FRFrench poet
- Eduardo González Mazob. 1965ESSpanish university teacher
- Sabina Mazob. 1997COColombian mixed martial arts fighter
- Michael MazoCACanadian film director
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2K | #2,386 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2K | #2,386 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,764 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 8 | #108 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
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
- Where does the name Mazo come from?
- nymic occupational name for someone who made use of a mallet, Sp. 7nazo (a byform of Maza; cf. Macho 2). The surname is also borne by Jews, the reason(s) for its adop¬ tion being unclear. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Mazo?
- A machine transcription gives /maso/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Mazo mean?
- Recorded meaning: nymic occupational name for someone who made use of a mallet, Sp.
- In which country does Mazo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Mazo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mazo.
- How common is the name Mazo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,043 people named Mazo, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Mazo compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Mazo is the 388th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mazoThe 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, “Mazo” — the 388th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.