Massé

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Massé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country. Recorded meaning: de Massé; nom de plusieurs localités dans l’ouest de la France.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 11K
  • USUnited States1 in 89K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Massé itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Thailand (inferred from the name graph)

≈13,000 named มะแซ, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
303 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MasséLatin(measured from records)
มะแซThai(measured from records)

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Masse in FR France, US United States, CA Canada and 2 more and มะแซ in TH Thailand.

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)

recorded in French

de Massé; nom de plusieurs localités dans l’ouest de la France

Sources 1

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

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Massé 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 Massé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TH Thailand#191≈13,000 est.≈1 in 5.3K#61,208มะแซ73
CN China—≈12,000 est.≈1 in 113K—Masse2
FR France#285≈10,000 est.≈1 in 6.5K1.6KMasse288
US United States—3,7531 in 89K3.8KMasse303
CA Canada#823≈3,500 est.≈1 in 11K—Masse157
CM Cameroon—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 25K—Masse7
MU Mauritius#985≈90 est.≈1 in 15K—Massé4

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)

Massé is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Argentina, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Masse, Massè, Massê, Måssę

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Massè, Masse, Mâsse

  • Hungarian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Canada, United States

    Also written Masse, Massè

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Canada

    Also written Masse, Massè

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Massé is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A stroke made with the cue held vertically that causes a billiard ball to move in an arc.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

18001850190019502000Victor Massé, b. 1822Alfred Massé, b. 1870Joseph Massé, b. 1878Henri Massé, b. 1886Arthur Massé, b. 1894Pierre Massé, b. 1898Marcel Massé, b. 1940Carole Massé, b. 1949Manon Massé, b. 1963

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 9 sources across 4 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Massé mean?
Recorded meaning: de Massé; nom de plusieurs localités dans l’ouest de la France
In which country does Massé have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named มะแซ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Massé?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,753 people named Massé in 2010, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
How common is Massé compared with other names?
In Thailand, Massé is the 191st most common surname of 1,135,150 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Massé” — the 191st most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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