Massi

surname · Latin script

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

Massi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic or plural form of Masso.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 52K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 127K
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 11K

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.

Algeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,600 people, est.

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Bolivia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

patronymic or plural form of Masso.

Sources 2

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Massi 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 Massi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 16Klisted—4
IT Italy—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 31KlistedMassi31
BR Brazil—1,6681 in 127K1.7KMassi79
BO Bolivia#807≈1,100 est.≈1 in 11K—Massi16
AR Argentina—8691 in 52K869Massi56
PY Paraguay—≈140 est.≈1 in 51K—Massi10

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)

Massi is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Maßi, Màssî, Mãssî, Mässi, Māssi

  • French surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Algeria

    Also written Màssi, Massî, Mâssī, Måssī, Mãssï

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Italy

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Massī, Mässí

  • Arabic surname75 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Pakistan

    Also written Mãssï, Mãssį, Màssi, Mãssî, Màssï

  • Italian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Canada, Bolivia

    Also written Massì, Mâssî, Mãssi, Mässï

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Italy

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mãssî, Massî

49 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)

Massi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Icelandic, mass (quantity of matter cohering together to make one body)

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

  • In Finnish, purse, wallet

    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)

1850190019502000Eugenio Massi, b. 1875Enrico Massi, b. 1897Nick Massi, b. 1927Stelvio Massi, b. 1929Nora Massi, b. 1942Danilo Massi, b. 1956Rodolfo Massi, b. 1965Simone Massi, b. 1970Souad Massi, b. 1972Valentina Massi, b. 1983

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 43 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Massi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.7K#5,762
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—869—
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———

Reference works 6

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 Massi mean, and where does it come from?
patronymic or plural form of Masso. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Nordic Names.
In which country does Massi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Massi in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Massi?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,668 people named Massi, about 1 in 127 thousand residents.
How common is Massi compared with other names?
In Bolivia, Massi is the 807th most common surname of 29,432 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, “Massi” — the 807th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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